hi,
the same problems happens with netscape and pine, mailnly on LINUX
boxes...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 27 03:47:28 2000
> > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:28:52 +0200
> > From: Robin Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: LPRng: [3.6.26] Max_fd
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > after an upgrade from LPRng 3.6.22 to 3.6.26 at least two of our
> > users have problems. They get an error message like
> >
> > Max_open:fd 34 and old Max_fd 19
> >
> > when they print from specific applications (ghostview and Acrobat
> > Reader). Looking into the source it seems that this error message
> > hasn't been in 3.6.22. What is it supposed to mean and what can we
> > do about it? Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > P.S.: All on Solaris 2.6
> >
> > --
> > Robin Sommer * private 05251/65041 * work 05251/60-3322
> > Univers. of Paderborn * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> It was put into the code in order to track down problems with applications
> that are closing all of the 'unused' file descriptors when they do
> and execve( lpr ), or do not close file descriptors.
>
> And it looks like we have a couple of culprits right here: ghostview and Acrobat
> Reader.
>
> This surfaced on a couple of systems when lpr got an 'out of file descriptor'
> system level error... Needless to say, I was perturbed.
>
> The 'Max_open()' code was put in to try and find out just how many file
> descriptors were in use. I would use it to track the 'high water mark'
> and the when I did an EXECVE I would close only the ones 'below'
> the high water mark.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> void Max_open( int fd )
> {
> if( fd > 0 ){
> if( fd > Max_fd+10 ){
> FATAL(LOG_ERR) "Max_open: fd %d and old Max_fd %d", fd, Max_fd);
> }
> if( fd > Max_fd ) Max_fd = fd;
> }
> }
> All you need to do is comment out the check...
>
> void Max_open( int fd )
> {
> if( fd > 0 ){
> #if 0
> if( fd > Max_fd+10 ){
> FATAL(LOG_ERR) "Max_open: fd %d and old Max_fd %d", fd, Max_fd);
> }
> #endif
> if( fd > Max_fd ) Max_fd = fd;
> }
> }
>
> But you might also send a flame to the ghostview and Acrobat folks...
>
> Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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> Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
> Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
> LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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