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From: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PAX : Too many open files
Message-ID: <200@wzv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 20:21:05 GMT
References: <86247@sun.uucp> <1133@naucse.UUCP> <86924@sun.uucp> <339@daitc.daitc.mil>
Reply-To: wietse@wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <339@daitc.daitc.mil> apapp@dgis.daitc.mil.UUCP (Andy Papp) writes:
>I have compiled the entire PAX suite, but it blows up on me giving the error
>"Too many files open".  Has anyone else had this problem and solved it? I'm
>running it on a VAX 11/780.

Just found a mistake in the code; where closedir() should be called, the
program invokes the close() function.  This is probably related to the
problem you describe. A patch follows at the end of this article.

*** namelist.c-	Mon Feb  6 23:25:20 1989
--- namelist.c	Sat Feb 11 20:03:29 1989
***************
*** 367,373 ****
  	    if (in_subdir) {
  		curr_dir->where = telldir(dirp);
  		pushdir(curr_dir);
! 		close(dirp);
  	    } 
  	    in_subdir++;
  
--- 367,373 ----
  	    if (in_subdir) {
  		curr_dir->where = telldir(dirp);
  		pushdir(curr_dir);
! 		closedir(dirp);
  	    } 
  	    in_subdir++;
  
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