Re: [PATCH 11/11] getdtablesize: Fix RLIMIT_NOFILE fallback case

[Paul Eggert]

Kevin Cernekee wrote:

@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ rpl_getdtablesize(void)
       a smaller soft limit, the smaller limit is not enforced, so
       we might as well just report the hard limit.  */
    struct rlimit lim;
-  if (!getrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim) && lim.rlim_max != RLIM_INFINITY)
-    return lim.rlim_max;
+  if (!getrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim) && lim.rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY)
+    return lim.rlim_cur;
    return getdtablesize ();
  }

This one doesn't look right, as it causes the code to disagree with the 
preceding comment.  Doesn't the patch lose a Cygwin fix?  That is, shouldn't the 
code do one thing on Cygwin, and another on other platforms where rlim_cur 
presumably works?