On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 07:04:33PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >On 2025-10-06 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey folks, > >> I'm following up to the conversation here, as AFAICS the common factor >> in all the programs I list below is the use of libgpg-error... > >... > >> if we watch long enough, we can see that the loop here runs all the >> way up to 1073741816, which is the configured limit for open files on >> the system. This has changed from Bookworm to Trixie, I believe? > >> Adding "ulimit -n 1024" to revert to Bookworm behaviour here makes >> things work in reasonable time. > >> As far as we can tell, /proc is mounted just fine in the chroots when >> we're doing stuff here, so I'm not sure that the (non-)existence of >> /proc/self/fd is relevant to the behaviour we're seeing. > >Today's 1.56 (not yet in Debian) has > > * Change the default method to get the number of fds to close. This > fixes a spawning problem on certain POSIX machine. [T7696] > >which might help.
Aha! Thanks for mentioning that. Looking further now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess
