From: The Weeg <TheWeeg@...>
Date: 2004-12-17T03:37:12+09:00
Subject: Too many files open?

I wrote a pretty simple web scraping tool, and i'm having it organize
the results into folders based upon search queries.  After six hundred
or so of these folders are created, i get a bizarre, "too many files
open" error(Errno::EMFILE).

This is the line of code it crashes on:
`mkdir #{foldername}`

And the only time I ever open and close files in my program is in
these few lines, but the program isn't crashing on these lines:

fileTempFile = File.new(filePath + "full_" + fileName +
".html","w")
fileTempFile.puts(response)
fileLinkText = File.new(filePath + "relevant_" + fileName +
".txt","w")
fileLinkText.puts(link + "\n" +
match.to_s.gsub(/<.*?>/,"").gsub(/&[a-zA-Z0-9#]*?;/,''))
fileLinkText.close
fileTempFile.close


As you can see, the files are being opened and closed almost
immediately.

Is there a different way I should be creating directories rather than
through a shell command?