Re: [NTG-pdftex] [tex-live] Runtime limitations on open files?

"Martin Schröder" writes:

2007/8/17, David Kastrup :

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Interesting. "Closed" with "Worksforme" because an application accumulated file descriptors erroneously.

The problem is that we actually _have_ this amount of outstanding images not yet shipped out. No programming error.

Just curious: How? Do you have more than 512/1024 images on one page?

Before we decide what to ship out. There is also the possibility of some box registers not being cleared out, but it is not easy to debug and most important to fix this in a reasonable time frame.

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_setmaxstdio(2048);

into web2c startup does not seem like it would be an overly onerous complication, would it?

No.

I can't see any downsides to that, anyway. Might be nice to stop leaving files open indiscriminately, but this stopgap measure appears like an easy copout at the moment. -- David Kastrup