Re: Too many open files

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/16/19 12:15 AM, sunnycemetery@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello.  Running the attached demonstration script results in the following
> errors, but I do not understand why:
> 
>> ./tmof: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Too many open files
>> ./tmof: cannot make pipe for process substitution: Too many open files
>> ./tmof: line 19: <( find "$d" -type f ): Too many open files
> 
> Removal of either the seemingly meaningless “if true” conditional or empty
> array declaration results in no error.  Could this be a bug?

Thanks for the report. The /dev/fd version of this code needs to reap
process substitutions a little more often. It can't be *too* aggressive,
since the fds can still be read even after the process generating the
data has terminated, but it can do a little more.

This will be fixed in the next devel branch push.

Chet
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