There is a hard limit on the number of file handles that can be open at one point per process on Mac OS X (e.g. it's 2560 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, as shown by ulimit -a). Opening one or several .qmlproject's with a large number of directories to watch easily exceeds this. The results are crashes later on, e.g. when threads cannot be created any more.

This patch implements a heuristic that the file system watcher used for .qmlproject files never uses more than half the number of available file handles. It also increases the number from rlim_cur to rlim_max - the old code in main.cpp failed, see last section in

 http://developer.apple.com/maac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/setrlimit.2.html

for details.

Reviewed-by: ckamm
Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-1487
Task-number: QTCREATORBUG-1486