Bug#923312: gnome-terminal ignores system ulimits

Harald Dunkel harald.dunkel at aixigo.de
Tue Feb 26 07:24:07 GMT 2019


Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.22.2-1

My /etc/security/limits.d/local.conf says

	* soft nofile 4096
	* hard nofile 16584
	root soft nofile 4096
	root hard nofile 16584

But within gnome-terminal I just get

	% egrep ^Limit\|open /proc/$$/limits
	Limit                     Soft Limit           Hard Limit           Units
	Max open files            1024                 4096                 files

Using other terminal emulators (xterm, xfce4-terminal) there
is no such problem.

This breaks my apps. gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-server
should resepct the ulimits initially set via pam_limits.so at
login time and inherited from the calling process.


Regards
Harri



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