RE: Too Many Files Open Error

Hi Joep,

        Yes to both (in another module).  I open a directory, read through it
looking for files of interest, load their names in an array, and close it.
I can't see any way for the close to fail to be executed.  Is it possible
that the number of files in the directory, being very large, could in itself
cause that message?  I have directories with tens of thousands of files...

Regards,

Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc
405 947-2886 Ext:143
rick@xxxxxxxxxx


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Just a guess: do you use 'opendir' for reading directories? And if so, do
you use 'closedir' as well?

Joep Beckeringh






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Hi Group,

                 I have a system running that, in part, accepts base64
jpegs, converts them
to binary, and writes them to the IFS (kudos to Scott Klement for his
base64
routines - great!).  It runs fine with one exception.  Periodically, it
returns a 'Too many open files for this process.' error when trying to
open
a file for write.

                 Obviously I must be failing to close files somewhere, but
I have not been
able to locate the fault.  It would surely help if I could, at failure
time,
list all the open files giving me a place to look but I haven't found
anything that would let me do that.  It is barely possible the problem is
not in the module I am examining (it's a fairly complex process overall).
I
would appreciate any pointers or suggestions - api's whatever that could
help me nail this down.  Can you get a list of open ifs files?

Thanks

Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc
405 947-2886 Ext:143
rick@xxxxxxxxxx


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