Carl Jolley wrote: > > And what effect did calling the close method on the objects have? > I assume that based on your lack of a confirming statement that > doing so did not clear up the problem. Did your testing show why > or based on your testing can you speculate as to why closing the > underlying file handles did not free up the file descriptors? > > Did your testing confirm or support your guess that the problem > was a failure of perl to release and re-claim file descriptors? > Does this appear to be a general problem with perl's global > cleanup/memory deallocation or does it seem to specifically relate > to file descriptors?
I only spent enough time on it to verify the failure and try a few work-arounds. Nothing helped that I tried, so I assumed it was either a bug or someone with more time had to try to resolve it. The number 256 leads one to believe that it's exceeding the max open, but that's educated speculation. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
