Re: openFile, process file table full

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:10:59 -0700, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

> >         xs <- mapM readFile (take 1000 (repeat "tmp"));

> That looks reasonable - there's usually some kind of limit on the
> number of files a process may have open, for example it's 1024 on
> our Linux box, and 64 on our Sparc box.

It's easier to explain than to fix. readFile's laziness strikes again.

This has bitten be once and caused a major redesign. OK, redesign to
a better solution, but it should not be forced that way :-)

The Haskell's runtime could do something with it: detect the "too many
open files" error and try to suck some lazily read files.

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