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> Kevin Gamiel wrote:
> > Absolutely. I just found one problem where I am using a Debug object
> > that writes debugging messages to a single file from a few hundred
> > different threads. I was using a PrintWriter but not explicitly closing
> > the stream after each message was written. Kaffe is the only vm that
> > has complained about "too many open files".
>
> We should remember this bug, at least. If the bug database is working
> (http://cgi.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/kaffe) could you file a report on this?
The fix for this is of course to trigger a gc/finalization cycle if
an open() fails because of EMFILE.
But closing fds explicitly is a good thing in any event, I think.
- Godmar
