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bug#40023: 26.3 Emacs crashes when creating process if many file handles
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From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#40023: 26.3 Emacs crashes when creating process if many file handles are in use (e.g., when using ccls) |
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Date: |
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:02:20 +0300 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:15:37 +0200
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> Actually reducing RLIMIT_NOFILE doesn't sound like a terrific idea -- if
> anything, we need as many descriptors as we can get, in particular on macOS
> where kqueue uses up one per monitored file. If we are limited by FD_SETSIZE,
> then we shouldn't use select. Or am I missing something?
We are talking about the emacs-27 branch, where such deep changes are
out of the question.