On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:45 AM, Kyle Hamilton wrote: The underlying OS has only a certain number of file handles that it can maintain open at a time. On UNIX-like systems, there is also possibly a maximum number of files per process. If this limit is hit, then no additional files can be opened, and on any attempt to do so an error is returned.
For some reason I was confused and thought that Squeak's garbage collector would somehow make me immune from this. Like when the file was no longer being used, it would be closed and purged. Now I know otherwise :)
Thanks, Tim
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