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Ava Chow 1a2523e901 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#34937: Fix startup failure with RLIM_INFINITY fd limits
735b25519a support: clamp RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to size_t (Sjors Provoost)
8ab4b9fc85 init: clamp fd limits to int (Sjors Provoost)
4afbabdcef Fix startup failure with RLIM_INFINITY fd limits (Sjors Provoost)

Pull request description:

  When setting the fd limit to unlimited, the node fails to start:

  ```sh
  ulimit -n unlimited
  build/bin/bitcoind
  Error: Not enough file descriptors available. -1 available, 160 required.
  ```

  This was caused by `RaiseFileDescriptorLimit()` (introduced in #2568) casting `limitFD.rlim_cur` to `int`, which for `RLIM_INFINITY` overflows to `-1`. Fix it by returning `std::numeric_limits<int>::max()` instead.

  Some platforms implement `RLIM_INFINITY` as the maximum uint64, others as int64 (-1). So simply changing the return type to `uint64_t` wouldn't work.

  Similarly, though unlikely to actually happen:

  ```sh
  ulimit -n 214748364
  build/bin/bitcoind
  Error: Not enough file descriptors available. -2147483648 available, 160 required.
  ```

  The second commit expands the fix by clamping all values above `std::numeric_limits<int>::max()` instead of letting them overflow.

  This PR also expands `test/functional/feature_init.py` to cover these, using `resource.setrlimit`. The check is skipped on environments with a hard limit below infinity (or that don't have the Python [Resource module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/resource.html)).

  macOS by default has a hard limit of infinity, but on e.g. Ubuntu the default hard limit is 524288.

  The third commit applies a similar fix to `PosixLockedPageAllocator::GetLimit()` for 32-bit systems, but without a test.

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