[Swift-user] Too many open file descriptors

[Tim Armstrong]

Nice catch!

On 21 August 2015 at 12:42, Justin M Wozniak <wozniak at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi
>      Sorry about that- it looks like we missed the point in the docs for
> this new Tcl feature that it returns an open file descriptor.  We will
> close it as you suggest.
>      Thanks
>      Justin
>
> On 08/21/2015 08:19 AM, Peter Wortmann wrote:
> > Hi swift-user
> >
> > We are using Swift/T in a way that does a lot of "@stdout=..."
> > indirections. However, this seems to lead to Turbine running out of file
> > descriptors at a certain point. A bit of poking showed that this calls
> > through to "mktemp" in "files.tcl", which states:
> >
> >    # This can fail with "too many open files"
> >    file tempfile result $tmpdir/.turbine
> >
> > Is this a known bug? I tried to work around it, and simply closing the
> > returned file channel seems to work:
> >
> >    close [file tempfile result $tmpdir/.turbine]
> >
> > Is there a reason to keep it open?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >    Peter
> >
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>
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> Justin M Wozniak
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