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-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--src/src/exim.c15
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index c27cbbef5..2283f726f 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.7 2004/10/18 09:16:57 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.8 2004/10/18 09:26:02 ph10 Exp $
Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
-------------------------------------------
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ Exim version 4.44
now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
- 5. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
+ 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
+
+ 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
+ descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
+ unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
+ systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
Exim version 4.43
diff --git a/src/src/exim.c b/src/src/exim.c
index bfdcbc6e0..dcf261879 100644
--- a/src/src/exim.c
+++ b/src/src/exim.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/exim.c,v 1.3 2004/10/18 09:16:57 ph10 Exp $ */
+/* $Cambridge: exim/src/src/exim.c,v 1.4 2004/10/18 09:26:02 ph10 Exp $ */
/*************************************************
* Exim - an Internet mail transport agent *
@@ -2837,12 +2837,21 @@ else
strerror(errno));
rlp.rlim_cur = rlp.rlim_max = 0;
}
+
+ /* I originally chose 1000 as a nice big number that was unlikely to
+ be exceeded. It turns out that some older OS have a fixed upper limit of
+ 256. */
+
if (rlp.rlim_cur < 1000)
{
rlp.rlim_cur = rlp.rlim_max = 1000;
if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlp) < 0)
- log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC, "setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed: %s",
- strerror(errno));
+ {
+ rlp.rlim_cur = rlp.rlim_max = 256;
+ if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlp) < 0)
+ log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC, "setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed: %s",
+ strerror(errno));
+ }
}
#endif