Re: [Duplicity-talk] Problem with max open files check on Cygwin

[Nick Burch]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> This looks like a reasonable fix.  Does -1 mean that there is no hard 
> limit on open files, or just not available?

I suspect that cygwin doesn't have the concept of both a soft and a hard 
limits, so the -1 on the hard limit means there's nothing available, and 
you only get a sensible answer on the soft limit

(I think there may be a hard limit that can be changed whilst compiling 
cygwin, but I've not found any way to programatically tell what it is, 
other than by trying to set the ulimit higher until it fails!)

Nick