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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andlind <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 21:36:09 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: Anders Lindgren <andlind <at> gmail.com>,  22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 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.
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