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Ken Coleman |
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Possible Mac OS X file handle leak when bulk decoding with gnus... |
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Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:19:34 -0400 |
Hi everyone,
I'm completely unsure if this is a bug in emacs or a bug in gnus, but I
am definitely having a problem. Basically I'm reading a binary
newsgroup, selecting a ton of articles (C-x h) for processing (#), then
trying to uudecode and save them (X U) to a folder, honoring multi-part
binaries, etc. It works for a while, but eventually I get the
following error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Creating pipe" "too many
open files")
start-process("*uudecode*" #<buffer *Gnus UU Output*> "/bin/bash"
"-c" "cd /tmp/gnus748Nbm/ ; uudecode")
gnus-uu-uustrip-article(" *Original Article*" middle)
gnus-uu-grab-articles( ...) gnus-uu-uustrip-article t)
gnus-uu-decode-with-method(gnus-uu-uustrip-article nil "~/News/" nil
nil t)
gnus-uu-decode-uu-and-save(nil "~/News/")
call-interactively(gnus-uu-decode-uu-and-save)
I am using a recent gnus from cvs and a recent emacs from cvs (both in
the past week or so), so I expect that completely up-to-date versions
would exhibit this behavior as well. I'm not using "Carbon" emacs, but
the x11 version for Mac OS X (--with-x --without-carbon). I've also
tried the (setq process-connection-type nil), but it doesn't work - I
also shouldn't need it according to what I've read since I'm running
10.3.
Also, I am a software developer, but I am not an emacs expert by any
means. It seems that in order to find the bug I'd have to debug both
the elisp code and the emacs binary itself, something which I've never
done before. It appears that it'd be pretty straightforward according
to http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DebugEmacs but what functions
am I likely to need to debug through? Stuff in process.c?
Thanks in advance for any help/pointers!
- Ken.
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