Functions related to currently running or manually spawned processes

Static methods

staticgetFileResourceLimit():UInt

Returns the current file resource limit on supported operating systems.

Returns:

UInt

staticisUserRoot():Bool

Checks if the current user that has spawned this process has root/admin privileges

Returns:

Bool

staticsetFileResourceLimit(limit:UInt):Bool

Sets the File Handle Resource Limit for the given process on supported operating systems.(sub-processes are not affected). On certain systems and environments the default file handle limit is ~256, which might be too low in specific cases. Use this function only if there's a certain need to have a large number of file handles simultaneously. If you set this value too low, your application might crash. Note: Sockets are also using file handles.

Parameters:

limit

The number of allowed file handles

Returns:

Returns true if the operation was successful, false otherwise