From 283a2b228508723d7cc9ee65e840b9b8cbadbbbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio SJ Musumeci <trapexit@spawn.link>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:46:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Try RLIMIT_INFINITY first, then cur = max, then loop and try
 to increase till error. closes #50

---
 src/resources.cpp | 30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/resources.cpp b/src/resources.cpp
index 5759c2d2..6f31429a 100644
--- a/src/resources.cpp
+++ b/src/resources.cpp
@@ -42,25 +42,29 @@ namespace mergerfs
     int
     maxout_rlimit(int resource)
     {
+      int rv;
       struct rlimit rlim;
 
-      if(geteuid() == 0)
-        {
-          rlim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
-          rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
-        }
-      else
-        {
-          int rv;
+      rlim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
+      rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
+      rv = ::setrlimit(resource,&rlim);
+      if(rv == 0)
+        return 0;
 
-          rv = ::getrlimit(resource,&rlim);
-          if(rv == -1)
-            return -1;
+      rv = ::getrlimit(resource,&rlim);
+      if(rv == -1)
+        return -1;
 
-          rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max;
+      rv = 0;
+      rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max;
+      while(rv == 0)
+        {
+          rv = ::setrlimit(resource,&rlim);
+          rlim.rlim_max *= 2;
+          rlim.rlim_cur  = rlim.rlim_max;
         }
 
-      return ::setrlimit(resource,&rlim);
+      return rv;
     }
 
     int