[svlug] Re: file descriptors

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:46:30PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Nate Campi, from the post of Thu, 24 Oct:
> > Weird. I just checked about a dozen woody and redhat 6.2-7.2 boxes (2.2
> > and 2.4 kernels) and all of them had 8192, except for a couple I
> > manually set higher and one rogue 2.2.17 kernel rh6.2 box with 4096.
> 
> it's not that I mind really. I'm happy to know I have enough... but it
> looks like something on sid (and obviously on one RHL box) is changing
> it.
> 
> Muli, is that also something SysCallTrack would discover? :)

Depends on how it's changing it. If it's via an easy to filter system
call, (write to a certain /proc file), yes. If it's via some other
mean, you'll have to find the mean, and if it's via a system call,
ayuh. 
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