On Mar 11, 3:08 am, Thomas Guettler <h...@tbz-pariv.de> wrote: > Richard wrote: > > I want to atomically write to a file so have been using temporary > > files and renaming: > > > temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) > > temp.file.write(data) > > temp.file.close() > > os.rename(temp.name, output_file) > > > This worked but after 39567 files os.rename raises an OSError: [Errno > > 31] Too many links > > > I can still create files in this directory so I doubt it is a platform > > limitation. > > Can you tell what is wrong? Am I not freeing the temporary file > > resources properly? > > If you are on linux you can have a look at the open file descriptors of > a running process like this: > > ls -l /proc/PID/fd/ > > But I guess it is a limitation of your filesystem. What do you use? > > I once had this problem with ext2. It has a low limit for > subdirectories. > > With xfs the limits are much greater. > > Thomas > > -- > Thomas Guettler,http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with ext3, which I believe has a limit for the number of subdirectories but not files. Thanks for the open file descriptor tip - I will check that out. Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
