[konsole] [Bug 507216] Konsole fails if I open 300 windows with "QProcess: Cannot create pipe (Too many open files)"; please, raise RLIMIT_NOFILE

Askar Safin bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Tue Jul 22 02:13:07 BST 2025


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507216

Askar Safin <safinaskar at mail.ru> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Askar Safin <safinaskar at mail.ru> ---
(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #4)
> We don't set nofile. The distro does. Take it up with them.

Application should set nofile to signal that it doesn't use "select".

Read this article: https://0pointer.net/blog/file-descriptor-limits.html

Distro cannot set this for all apps, because it doesn't know what apps use
"select"

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