1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/utils_cmd.c b/lib/utils_cmd.c
index 9e214bd4..7eb9a3a0 100644
--- a/lib/utils_cmd.c
+++ b/lib/utils_cmd.c
@@ -79,12 +79,14 @@ static pid_t *_cmd_pids = NULL;
  * If that fails and the macro isn't defined, we fall back to an educated
  * guess. There's no guarantee that our guess is adequate and the program
  * will die with SIGSEGV if it isn't and the upper boundary is breached. */
+#define DEFAULT_MAXFD  256   /* fallback value if no max open files value is set */
+#define MAXFD_LIMIT   8192   /* upper limit of open files */
 #ifdef _SC_OPEN_MAX
 static long maxfd = 0;
 #elif defined(OPEN_MAX)
 # define maxfd OPEN_MAX
 #else   /* sysconf macro unavailable, so guess (may be wildly inaccurate) */
-# define maxfd 256
+# define maxfd DEFAULT_MAXFD
 #endif
 
 
@@ -112,10 +114,18 @@ cmd_init (void)
         if (!maxfd && (maxfd = sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX)) < 0) {
                 /* possibly log or emit a warning here, since there's no
                  * guarantee that our guess at maxfd will be adequate */
-                maxfd = 256;
+                maxfd = DEFAULT_MAXFD;
         }
 #endif
 
+        /* if maxfd is unnaturally high, we force it to a lower value
+         * ( e.g. on SunOS, when ulimit is set to unlimited: 2147483647 this would cause
+         * a segfault when following calloc is called ...  ) */
+
+        if ( maxfd > MAXFD_LIMIT ) {
+                maxfd = MAXFD_LIMIT;
+        }
+
         if (!_cmd_pids)
                 _cmd_pids = calloc (maxfd, sizeof (pid_t));
 }