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26.3; Emacs crashes when creating process if many file handles are in use (e.g., when using ccls)

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Holger Pirk <holger <at> pirk.name>
Cc: 40023 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40023: 26.3; Emacs crashes when creating process if many
 file handles are in use (e.g., when using ccls)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:32:14 +0100

>>>>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:50:22 +0000, Holger Pirk <holger <at> pirk.name> said:

    Holger> I have spent some time digging around the code and couldn't quite figure
    Holger> out the logic behind the `fd < FD_SETSIZE`-assert. I suspect the CCLS
    Holger> opens files without going through emacs' infrastructure which leads to
    Holger> high file descriptors which emacs cannot handle. I would say that CCLS
    Holger> is, in part, to blame but emacs shouldn't simply crash.

Emacs is limited by the limits of select, which supports a maximum of
FD_SETSIZE file descriptors, which on macOS is 1024

At least on macOS, itʼs possible to increase that value to eg 8192 by
setting FD_SETSIZE, which might alleviate this, but then you'd
probably run into the 'ulimit -n' maximum, so you'd have to remember
to increase that.

Using 'poll' would help, but as far as I know nobody is working on
converting emacs to use it.

It would be interesting to see how CCLS opens files. How does it pass
the descriptor back to emacs?

Robert

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