// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. //go:build unix package syscall import ( "sync/atomic" ) // origRlimitNofile, if non-nil, is the original soft RLIMIT_NOFILE. var origRlimitNofile atomic.Pointer[Rlimit] // Some systems set an artificially low soft limit on open file count, for compatibility // with code that uses select and its hard-coded maximum file descriptor // (limited by the size of fd_set). // // Go does not use select, so it should not be subject to these limits. // On some systems the limit is 256, which is very easy to run into, // even in simple programs like gofmt when they parallelize walking // a file tree. // // After a long discussion on go.dev/issue/46279, we decided the // best approach was for Go to raise the limit unconditionally for itself, // and then leave old software to set the limit back as needed. // Code that really wants Go to leave the limit alone can set the hard limit, // which Go of course has no choice but to respect. func init() { var lim Rlimit if err := Getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim); err == nil && lim.Cur != lim.Max { origRlimitNofile.Store(&lim) nlim := lim nlim.Cur = nlim.Max adjustFileLimit(&nlim) setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &nlim) } } func Setrlimit(resource int, rlim *Rlimit) error { err := setrlimit(resource, rlim) if err == nil && resource == RLIMIT_NOFILE { // Store nil in origRlimitNofile to tell StartProcess // to not adjust the rlimit in the child process. origRlimitNofile.Store(nil) } return err }