> Am 05.12.2016 um 18:48 schrieb David M. Lloyd <david.ll...@redhat.com>: > >> On 12/05/2016 06:29 AM, Norman Maurer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I wonder if it would be possible to add a new public exception time for the >> situation of an SocketChannel.accept(…) or SocketChannel.open(…) (and the >> same for ServerSocket / Socket) failing because of too many open files. >> The reason is because especially when acting as a server such an exception >> may be something you can easily recover from. At there is basically no way >> to detect if this was the cause of an IOException or not. >> >> On unix / linux this are the errno values: >> >> [EMFILE] The per-process descriptor table is full. >> [ENFILE] The system file table is full. >> >> For netty we would love to be able to know if this was the case of the >> problem and if so just stop accepting for a period of time to help the >> system to recover. >> >> What others think about this ? > > I like the idea, but maybe it should be a general IOException since this same > error can happen on file open, selector creation (sometimes), pipe creation, > etc. > > -- > - DML
Sure that would work for me as well :) Bye, Norman
