[Bug gold/10708] "out of file descriptors and couldn't close any" -- probably fd leak

[ian at airs dot com]

------- Additional Comments From ian at airs dot com  2009-11-07 02:27 -------
I have tried to recreate this problem, but failed.  As far as I can tell, gold 
will react correctly to a lack of file descriptors.  I will need more 
information on what could be causing the issue for you.

gold will try to open as many file descriptors as it needs.  If you give it 
more 
than 1024 input files, then it will open more than 1024 descriptors.  However, 
if an open fails with ENFILE or EMFILE it will close some descriptors, and will 
not try to open that many again.

The error you are getting is the error that gold gives if it runs out of file 
descriptors but can not find any to close.  It's not reasonable that it would 
need to keep 1024 descriptors open--unless perhaps you are running with a very 
large number of threads.  Are you passing any --thread option to gold?

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