From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-03-06T10:08:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Too many open files on OpenBSD

Hi,

In message "Re: Too many open files on OpenBSD"
    on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:32:58 +0900, Edd Barrett <vext01@gmail.com> writes:

|This is the error I am stuck with:
|
|---8<---
|./tlpsrcnode.rb:19:in `initialize': Too many open files -
|/home/tl/tl/Master/tlpkg/tlpsrc/wordcount.tlpsrc (Errno::EMFILE)
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:19:in `new'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:19:in `parse'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:30:in `parse'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `each'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `parse'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:30:in `parse'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `each'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `parse'
|         ... 3055 levels...
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `each'
|        from ./tlpsrcnode.rb:20:in `parse'
|        from ./roottlpsrcnode.rb:53:in `startParse'
|        from ./rbmfsplit:54
|---8<---

It seems you recursively call parse, which keep files opened.  How
about reading whole file content in a string by File.read, then call
each_line on the string?  E.g.

  def parse()
    File.read(@path).each_line do |line|
      line =~ /^(.*?) (.*)/

      ....
    end
  end

-- 
							matz.