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[PATCH v2] Prefer sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) over getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,...)

From
Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date
Aug 24, 2012, 09:52 UTC
Message-ID
<002f01cd81de$28f43bf0$7adcb3d0$@schmitz-digital.de>
Signed-off-by: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
---
As discussed now as a small helper function rather than #ifdef/#endif in the primary flow of the code.
And hopefully without having screwed up whitespace and line breaks
 sha1_file.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index af5cfbd..427f9e6 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -731,6 +731,20 @@ void free_pack_by_name(const char *pack_name)
 	}
 }
 
+static unsigned int get_max_fd_limit(void)
+{
+#ifdef _SC_OPEN_MAX
+	return sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX);
+#else
+	struct rlimit lim;
+
+	if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim))
+		die_errno("cannot get RLIMIT_NOFILE");
+
+	return lim.rlim_cur;
+#endif
+}
+
 /*
  * Do not call this directly as this leaks p->pack_fd on error return;
  * call open_packed_git() instead.
@@ -747,13 +761,7 @@ static int open_packed_git_1(struct packed_git *p)
 		return error("packfile %s index unavailable", p->pack_name);
 
 	if (!pack_max_fds) {
-		struct rlimit lim;
-		unsigned int max_fds;
-
-		if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim))
-			die_errno("cannot get RLIMIT_NOFILE");
-
-		max_fds = lim.rlim_cur;
+		unsigned int max_fds = get_max_fd_limit();
 
 		/* Save 3 for stdin/stdout/stderr, 22 for work */
 		if (25 < max_fds)
-- 
1.7.12
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