The default file descriptor limit (ulimit -n 1024) is too low

[Scott Ritchie]

On 11/05/2010 02:21 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:46:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> We should also fix it so pam_limits is able to grab the kernel default
>> limits from somewhere, instead of hard-coding these at compile time.  I
>> think you suggested reading /proc/1/limits for this, though it's less than
>> ideal to be parsing this file to get that info.
> 
> Well, the text there is unlikely to change, but it would be nice to have a
> more stable result. On the other hand, reading from /proc/1/limits means
> that per-container PAM would get the "right" limits, based on that
> container's init process.
> 

Is there a launchpad bug for this?  If not I suggest appropriating
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/663090  so we don't lose this
discussion.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie