[snake-farm] RE: [Python-Dev] strange warnings from tempfile.mkstemped.__del__ on HP

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:14:21 -0400


> [me, on the HP-UX snake farm build]
> > AssertionError: _mkstemp_inner raised exceptions.OSError: [Errno 24]
> > Too many open files: '/tmp/aaU3irrA'
> > 
> > Hmm, I wonder how many that is, and how to change it.  I'll look
> > around.
> 
> I've raised maxfiles from 200 to 2048, and the test now runs without
> error.

Thanks!  Maybe the test was a little too eager though -- perhaps it
could be happy with creating 100 instead of 1000 files.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)