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Subject: Re: X-Faces and 'too many open files'
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Olaf Jahn <jahno@math.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> I encountered the following problem with Gnus' ability to display the
> X-Faces: After browsing through a number of articles containing
> X-Faces (and having them displayed in the article buffer [1]),
> my xemacs refuses to display more faces telling me:
> 
> 	        Cannot open: too many open files
> 
> It seems that Gnus is somehow leaking file handles (yes, all articles
> are displayed in the same *Article* buffer). 

Sounds to me like an XEmacs bug.  No Lisp packages deal with file
handles. 

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