GNU bug report logs - #22814
25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Caldwell <david <at> porkrind.org>

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 06:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.91

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at 22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:46:46 +0200

> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:55:42 +0100
> From: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  A general support for polling in filenotify.el is not foreseen, too much
>  effort. But I believe, in the auto-revert case Emacs works already this
>  way. When file-notify-add-watch returns nil, auto-revert falls back to
>  polling (to be tested, I'll I add a test).
> 
> This sounds like the right thing to do.
> 
> The main question is why Emacs hangs when opening a large desktop (which is why I didn't want this bug to
> be closed), even though the file notify system has this fallback.

Can you debug this?
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