From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-06-10T06:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Park and Sean....Possible memory bug in Ruby? I'm stumped!

* Wesley J Landaker (wjl@icecavern.net) wrote:

> If and when it gets garbage collected, the file will be closed. But if
> you run a ton of these commands in a row, it's extremely easy to open
> more files than is allowed by the OS before the garbage collector ever
> kicks in. (Perhaps ruby ought to catch the error and run the garbage
> collector, then try again transparently?)

It does:

    file = fopen(fname, mode);
    if (!file) {
桟祁祁祁if (errno == EMFILE || errno == ENFILE) {
桟祁祁祁    rb_gc();
桟祁祁祁    file = fopen(fname, mode);
桟祁祁祁}

Spot the great use of mixed tabs and spaces to indent there ;)

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