Subject: bug#40023: 26.3 Emacs crashes when creating process if many file handles are in use (e.g., when using ccls)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:23:21 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:14:19 +0200
> Cc: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> Itʼs unfortunately very much a flag-day change that would need testing
> on loads of different platforms. Or we #ifdef it to death.

The user who reported bug#40555 said the patch we have here fixed the
problem, so I think we should install that patch on the emacs-27
branch (I hope we will have another pretest soon).

Or is there something else that's needed before we can install that
patch?

Thanks.