1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/runcmd.c b/plugins/runcmd.c
index 1a7c904f..c3828678 100644
--- a/plugins/runcmd.c
+++ b/plugins/runcmd.c
@@ -67,19 +67,6 @@
  * occur in any number of threads simultaneously. */
 static pid_t *np_pids = NULL;
 
-/* Try sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) first, as it can be higher than OPEN_MAX.
- * If that fails and the macro isn't defined, we fall back to an educated
- * guess. There's no guarantee that our guess is adequate and the program
- * will die with SIGSEGV if it isn't and the upper boundary is breached. */
-#ifdef _SC_OPEN_MAX
-static long maxfd = 0;
-#elif defined(OPEN_MAX)
-# define maxfd OPEN_MAX
-#else /* sysconf macro unavailable, so guess (may be wildly inaccurate) */
-# define maxfd 256
-#endif
-
-
 /** prototypes **/
 static int np_runcmd_open(const char *, int *, int *)
 	__attribute__((__nonnull__(1, 2, 3)));