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diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/file-descriptor-limit-e2b2a3033b9ef21e.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/file-descriptor-limit-e2b2a3033b9ef21e.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..873574f --- /dev/null +++ b/releasenotes/notes/file-descriptor-limit-e2b2a3033b9ef21e.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +features: + - | + A configurable limit on the number of file descriptors that can be opened + by a rootwrap-started process has been added. It defaults to 1024, but + can be adjusted by setting the ``rlimit_nofile`` option in rootwrap.conf + to a larger or smaller value. +upgrade: + - | + Because a file descriptor limit was added in this release (see the features + section for details), rootwrap processes that were previously relying on + inheriting their parent process's descriptor limits may exhaust their + available file descriptors. Use the ``rlimit_nofile`` option to restore + the previous limits if this is the case. |