ulimit error while changing max files to unlimited: PAM / sshd options?

[Rahul Nabar]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Carl T. Miller <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
>> You are right! It does seem to work with arbitrarily large numbers
>> lower than the kernel limit. But not unlimited. Strange! Is that a
>> bug? I thought "unlimited" was supposed to be a convenient synonym for
>> the kernel imposed limit.
>
> I've never tried using unlimited.  What you say makes sense.

I'll wait to see if any of the others on the list have a comment. Else
I'll file a bug report.

-- 
Rahul