From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Henri DF <henri.dubois-ferriere@epfl.ch>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] file descriptor leaks?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:31:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504093105.GN4559@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405041112110.29917-100000@lcmpc4.epfl.ch>
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:15:44AM +0200, Henri DF wrote:
> <quote>Calls to read_file open the file but don't close it. Because OCaml
> uses a
> full garbage collector chan isn't collected until some (unknown,
> asynchronous) time later when the minor heap becomes full. This means that
> open file descriptors build up waiting to be collected in one go. If files
> is a long list, then this code is likely to fail when the OS limit on the
> number of open files is reached.
> </quote>
Yes, I think this part of the tutorial is wrong.
Rich.
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2004-05-03 23:32 Ker Lutyn
2004-05-04 7:46 ` Basile Starynkevitch local
2004-05-04 9:15 ` Henri DF
2004-05-04 9:31 ` Richard Jones [this message]
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