Re: How can I clear/deallocate open File Descriptors

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So these are all in a given job - the FD pool is per job.

So how much can one assume (I know!!) that, at some point in the 
hierarchy,, that it is safe to close them?

I'm thinking that these things are kind of synchronous in use, for the 
most part. I'm probably missing something, so am asking.

I still think that if a job is running out, first of all, it CAN change 
the limit. Secondly, it should NOT be running out - it should always be 
cleaning up after itself - nested operations notwithstanding, it seems 
it should be difficult to run out at a given nesting level.

Just thoughts while preparing for work!

Vern

On 4/15/2014 10:33 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> Yep.  And there's also pipes (in addition to files and sockets.)
>
> On 4/15/2014 6:57 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> > A complication you know about, Scott, is that sockets come out of the
> > same pool - again, unpredictable disasters - I couldn't soften it by
> > calling them results.