Why output of ulimit and /proc/<pid>/limits of the same user does not match?
Issue
- Why the output of the ulimit -Hn does not match with max open file entry?
- Why the value of max open files does not match between
/etc/security/limits.confand/proc/<pid>/limits?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
- systemd-219-78.el7_9.3.x86_64
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