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-rw-r--r--src/socketengines/socketengine_epoll.cpp10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/socketengines/socketengine_epoll.cpp b/src/socketengines/socketengine_epoll.cpp
index a935d786b..c442e340d 100644
--- a/src/socketengines/socketengine_epoll.cpp
+++ b/src/socketengines/socketengine_epoll.cpp
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
#include "exitcodes.h"
#include <sys/epoll.h>
-#include <ulimit.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
#include <iostream>
/** A specialisation of the SocketEngine class, designed to use linux 2.6 epoll().
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@ namespace
void SocketEngine::Init()
{
- // MAX_DESCRIPTORS is mainly used for display purposes, no problem if ulimit() fails and returns a negative number
- MAX_DESCRIPTORS = ulimit(4, 0);
+ // MAX_DESCRIPTORS is mainly used for display purposes, no problem if getrlimit() fails
+ struct rlimit limit;
+ if (!getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limit))
+ {
+ MAX_DESCRIPTORS = limit.rlim_cur;
+ }
// 128 is not a maximum, just a hint at the eventual number of sockets that may be polled,
// and it is completely ignored by 2.6.8 and later kernels, except it must be larger than zero.