From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2008-10-31T05:53:23+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:19644] Re: GC thought Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:19643] Re: GC thought" on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:35:31 +0900, Kurt Stephens writes: |File.open() should probably force a GC after open(...) and errno == |ENFILE and retry. That would give an opportunity for the finalizers to |return unused file descriptor(s) back to the OS. CRuby already does. matz.