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bug#24869: 26.0.50; Emacs should not force lower FD limit on subprocesse


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#24869: 26.0.50; Emacs should not force lower FD limit on subprocesses
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 22:58:32 -0800
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Brendan O'Dea wrote:
A potential fix would be to stash the initial limit before changing it, and
then restore that limit in child_setup().

Thanks, I did that, and am closing the bug.

My inclination however would just be to revert that entire change: AFAICT it
merely moves the problem from emacs crashing under some aberrant behaviour, to
emacs no longer working under that same behaviour due to system calls randomly
failing with EMFILE.

Crashing is quite bad. I'd rather have Emacs report a reasonable diagnostic instead. If Emacs is not doing that, we should fix it.





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