Increase default nofile ulimit

Robie Basak robie.basak at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 9 11:10:40 UTC 2014


AIUI, there are security implications for raising this limit system-wide
by default, since applications that use select() are often broken and
will become vulnerable with a higher limit.

See
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-September/031446.html

for the previous discussion.
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