cmd/utils/fdlimit_windows.go


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// Copyright 2016 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of go-ethereum.
//
// go-ethereum is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// go-ethereum is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.
//
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package utils

import "errors"

// raiseFdLimit tries to maximize the file descriptor allowance of this process
// to the maximum hard-limit allowed by the OS.
func raiseFdLimit(max uint64) error {
    // This method is NOP by design:
    //  * Linux/Darwin counterparts need to manually increase per process limits
    //  * On Windows Go uses the CreateFile API, which is limited to 16K files, non
    //    changeable from within a running process
    // This way we can always "request" raising the limits, which will either have
    // or not have effect based on the platform we're running on.
    if max > 16384 {
        return errors.New("file descriptor limit (16384) reached")
    }
    return nil
}

// getFdLimit retrieves the number of file descriptors allowed to be opened by this
// process.
func getFdLimit() (int, error) {
    // Please see raiseFdLimit for the reason why we use hard coded 16K as the limit
    return 16384, nil
}

// getFdMaxLimit retrieves the maximum number of file descriptors this process is
// allowed to request for itself.
func getFdMaxLimit() (int, error) {
    return getFdLimit()
}