syscall: Rlimit constant -1 overflows uint64

[cuisj]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.9.2

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

linux/amd64

What did you do?

package main

import (
"log"
"syscall"
)

func main() {
rlim := syscall.Rlimit{Cur: syscall.RLIM_INFINITY, Max: syscall.RLIM_INFINITY}
log.Println(rlim)
}

build: go build k.go
output: constant -1 overflows uint64

What did you expect to see?

syscall.RLIM_INFINITY can direcly set to syscall.Rlimit.Cur or syscall.Rlimit.Max

[ianlancetaylor]

I think that changing this in the syscall package will break the Go 1 compatibility guarantee, in that people who are already working around this problem in their code will have their workaround broken.

Use the golang.org/x/sys/unix package instead. There the value is the more reasonable 0xfffffffffffffffff.

Closing as unfortunate.