ulimit.h(3HEAD) Headers ulimit.h(3HEAD)NAME
ulimit.h, ulimit - ulimit commands
SYNOPSIS
#include <ulimit.h>
DESCRIPTION
The <ulimit.h> header defines the following symbolic constants used by the ulimit() function.
UL_GETFSIZE Get maximum file size.
UL_SETFSIZE Set maximum file size.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO ulimit(2), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 10 Sep 2004 ulimit.h(3HEAD)
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ULIMIT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ULIMIT(3)NAME
ulimit -- get and set process limits
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <ulimit.h>
long
ulimit(int cmd, ...);
DESCRIPTION
The ulimit() function will get and set process limits. Currently, this is limited to the maximum file size. The cmd argument is one of the
following:
UL_GETFSIZE will return the maximum file size of the current process, in units of 512-byte blocks.
UL_SETFSIZE will attempt to set the maximum file size of the current process and its children, using the second argument (expressed as a
long).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, ulimit() returns the value requested; otherwise, the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to
indicate the error.
ERRORS
The ulimit() function will fail if:
[EINVAL] The command specified was invalid.
[EPERM] The limit specified to ulimit() would have raised the maximum limit value, and the caller is not the super-user.
SEE ALSO getrlimit(2)STANDARDS
The ulimit() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The ulimit() function first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
BUGS
The ulimit() function provides limited precision for setting and retrieving process limits. If there is a need for greater precision than
the type long provides, the getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2) functions should be considered.
BSD January 4, 2003 BSD
%ulimit -a
nofiles(descriptors) 1024
This means that I can open up to 1024 file per process? But wonder if there is any hardlimit imposed by Solaris 2.6 (eg 255) ?
By the way, is there any tool that can trace which files (or sockets) are opened by a process?
Thanks
DY (5 Replies)
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the output of plimit <process name> is:
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resource current maximum
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