DTrace at Home
I’m not the first person to hit this. The problem seems to have existed since CS6 was released in 2016. None of the solutions was working for me, and — inspired by Sara Mauskopf’s excellent post — I was rapidly running out of the time bounds for the project. Enough; I’d just DTrace it.
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Looking through
/usr/include/sys/resource.hwe can see that 1008 corresponds to the number of files (RLIMIT_NOFILE | _RLIMIT_POSIX_FLAG). Illustrator is trying to set that value to 0x7fffffffffffffff or 2⁶³-1. Apparently too big; I filed any latent curiosity for another day.[…]
First I used DTrace to find the code that was calling
setrlimit(2): using some knowledge of the x86 ISA/ABI[…][…]
Instead I used
lldbto replace the call with a store of 0 to%eax(to evince a successful return value) and somenopsas padding[…]
