path: root/common/fdlimit/fdlimit_windows.go

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package fdlimit

import "fmt"

// hardlimit is the number of file descriptors allowed at max by the kernel.
const hardlimit = 16384

// Raise tries to maximize the file descriptor allowance of this process
// to the maximum hard-limit allowed by the OS.
func Raise(max uint64) (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 > hardlimit {
        return hardlimit, fmt.Errorf("file descriptor limit (%d) reached", hardlimit)
    }
    return max, nil
}

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

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