Randy Boring perlportedly wrote: > > >MacPerl 5.20r4 on MacOS 9.0, ran into a limit on the number of open > >files. about 58, i think. does this sound right? low? I thought the open > >file limit in MacOS9 was 256? is there a way to get MacPerl (any > >version) to print a list of all open files (its own and others')? or, at > >any rate, the total files open on the OS? > > I just opened MacPerl 5.20r4 and then broke into macsbug and typed > 'files' and counted the number of open files. I was amazed: 287! The > limit is, I believe, around 384, but this leaves about 97 free on my > system. If you have more fonts than I, and maybe more other programs > running (I was only running Finder, Emailer, and MacPerl), you may very > well find 58 to be your limit. > Thanks for the comments, Randy. Someone else sent me tis:
> see the FileCache module: "Keep more files open than the system > permits" <http://search.cpan.org/search?module=FileCache> don't know yet if this works with macperl ...
