From: Boop Boop Date: 2007-05-02T03:09:43+09:00 Subject: infinite loop in Tempfile.new I wrote a little program that happens to use Tempfile. Whenever it got to that point, it would crash with a "too many open files" error. Investigation (via "puts" statements) revealed that Tempfile.new is (indirectly) invoking Tempfile.new. Specifically, at the line: super(@tmpfile) "puts" statements immediately before and after that, plus one at the very top of Tempfile.new, show that it reaches that line, and then goes back to the top of Tempfile.new, without ever getting past that line, over and over, until the system eventually gets to "too many open files". I reduced my program to a very basic one, just doing Tempfile.new and nothing else, and didn't get this problem. So it must be some interaction with something else in my program. Unfortunately, I don't currently have time to investigate further, and cannot post my code as is. But I figured I should let somebody know that there is definitely some sort of infinite loop, under some condition, associated with that line. Incidentally, this was originally in 1.8.4; I upgraded to 1.8.6, and had the same problem. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.