> There's no reason to place an arbitrary cap on the number of file descriptors a process can have I like to think that if something is there then there's a re

> There's no reason to place an arbitrary cap on the number of file descriptors a process can have I like to think that if something is there then there's a reason for it, it's just that I'm not that smart to see it :) jokes aside, I could see this as a security measure? A malware that tries to encrypt your whole filesystem in a single shot could be blocked or at least slowed down with this limit.