Re: GC and file descriptors (and external resources.in general, I guess)

[Marius Vollmer]

Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:

> currently, if a call to `open' or `opendir' fails, Guile throws an
> error.
> 
> what it *should* do, IMHO, is try to GC first, since it is likely to
> free some file descriptors.
> 
> so, well, is there any reason why this isn't done?  if there's no
> good reason, I'll add this functionality.

I think it's a good idea. (Of course, we should GC only when the error
is EMFILE or ENFILE.)  There is like no great danger of getting into
oscillations, like there is for memory.