Re: Try to gc when we run out of file handles

[Andrew Haley <aph at pasanda dot cygnus dot co dot uk>]

> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:08:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
> 
> Andrew> There's a memory and file descriptor leak in createTempFile().
> Andrew> This fixes it, I think.
> 
> I think you can just call "desc.close()" at the end of createTempFile.

Yeah, I think so.  It seemed to me that the author was keeping the
desc open for some reason, so I was just being careful.

> FYI there is a PR on this, so include the PR info in the ChangeLog
> entry.

Oh, right.  I never saw the PR.

> Andrew> 	* java/io/natFileDescriptorPosix.cc (open): Run gc when open()
> Andrew> 	fails due to too many open files.
> 
> You probably want to call System.runFinalization after the GC.
> This isn't a guarantee (for some collectors running the GC doesn't
> even make sense), but it is still better than what we have now.

Well, anything involving fixed size resource pools is bound to be
somewhat system + gc dependent, I guess.  At least this gives us a
chance to continue.

Andrew.