From: Charles-François Natali <cf.natali@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:25:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Issue #21901: Cap the maximum number of file descriptors to use for the test.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.2rc1~192
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=889d6463b39ab2d6068b7eed7212eebd16e39574;p=python

Issue #21901: Cap the maximum number of file descriptors to use for the test.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_selectors.py b/Lib/test/test_selectors.py
index 34edd7630d..46026be0aa 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_selectors.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_selectors.py
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ class ScalableSelectorMixIn:
             resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (hard, hard))
             self.addCleanup(resource.setrlimit, resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE,
                             (soft, hard))
-            NUM_FDS = hard
+            NUM_FDS = min(hard, 2**16)
         except (OSError, ValueError):
             NUM_FDS = soft