Subject: Re: bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:36:09 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Anders Lindgren <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:26:07 +0100
> 
> The hang must be somewhere else in Emacs, where the request for a new
> file descriptor is assumed to work w/o check.

That's what I meant: something, somewhere is not working correctly.

> > Also, if you somehow end up visiting a file in /tmp, your Emacs will
> > get notifications about every temp file operation on the OS, which
> > will probably slow it down quite a lot.
> 
> Not necessarily for every backend.

But with Dired open on /tmp, it is.