Unix Programming - Re: error : Too many open files

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Re: error : Too many open files

Geoff Clare

2004-01-23, 4:57 pm

Andrei Voropaev <avorop@mail.ru> writes:

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>Also check why you don't have enough file descriptors. Maybe you forget
>to close them somewhere?

Seems that, in the posts I have seen so far on this, everyone has been
fooled by the misleading perror() message.

That's the message perror() prints when errno is EMFILE. For shmat()
an EMFILE error means you have run out of shared memory segments, not
open files.

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Geoff Clare <nospam@gclare.org.uk>