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 $ cat proclimitdemo.pro 
SOURCES += proclimitdemo.cpp

 $ cat proclimitdemo.cpp
#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QProcess>
#include <QString>
#include <QDebug>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
    QApplication a(argc, argv);
    QProcess *pr[400];
    for(int i = 0; i<200; i++)
        {
        qDebug() << i;
        pr[i]=new QProcess();
        pr[i]->start("sleep", QStringList() << "10");
        };
    };

...
write(2, "167 \n", 5167 
)                   = 5
pipe2([10, 1009], O_CLOEXEC)            = 0
pipe2([1013, 1015], O_CLOEXEC)          = 0
pipe2([1018, 1019], O_CLOEXEC)          = 0
pipe2([1020, 1021], O_CLOEXEC)          = 0
pipe2([1022, 1023], O_CLOEXEC)          = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7841ad8) = 2443
fcntl64(1022, F_GETFL)                  = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fcntl64(1022, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
close(1021)                             = 0
close(10)                               = 0
fcntl64(1009, F_GETFL)                  = 0x1 (flags O_WRONLY)
fcntl64(1009, F_SETFL, O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
close(1015)                             = 0
fcntl64(1013, F_GETFL)                  = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fcntl64(1013, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
close(1019)                             = 0
fcntl64(1018, F_GETFL)                  = 0 (flags O_RDONLY)
fcntl64(1018, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
write(2, "168 \n", 5168 
)                   = 5
pipe2([10, 1015], O_CLOEXEC)            = 0
=====================>pipe2(0x98bd788, O_CLOEXEC)             = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files)
write(2, "QProcessPrivate::createPipe: Can"..., 79QProcessPrivate::createPipe: Cannot create pipe 0x98bd788: Too many open files
) = 79
write(2, "QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket "..., 42QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified
) = 42
write(2, "QSocketNotifier: Internal error\n", 32QSocketNotifier: Internal error
) = 32
...

...
165 
166 
==1839== Warning: invalid file descriptor 1019 in syscall pipe2()
QProcessPrivate::createPipe: Cannot create pipe 0x55ad498: Too many open files
==1839== Warning: invalid file descriptor 1019 in syscall pipe2()
QProcessPrivate::createPipe: Cannot create pipe 0x55ad4a0: Too many open files
==1839== Warning: invalid file descriptor 1020 in syscall close()
167 
...

LANG=C emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E7600_@_3.06GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:45:03 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p2-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r1
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sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
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LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
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MAKEOPTS="-j5"
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