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"craig@malchiarts.com (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> writes:
> # New Ticket Created by craig@malchiarts.com
> # Please include the string: [perl #23042]
> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=23042 >
>
>
>
> This is a bug report for perl from craig@malchiarts.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please enter your report here]
>
> Solaris has a known issue with open file descriptors,
You can reproduce the problem on other systems, too. Just set the file
descriptor limit to a low value (e.g. by using limits -n). Other
systems like Linux and FreeBSD have much higher default limits than
Solaris.
> but the error message
> thrown when the limit has been reached by loading a lib is misleading. Also,
> recursive library calls (libA calls libB calls libC etc...) generate the same
> error message.
>
> use program below for reference:
>
[...]
>
>
> also note that adding a -m switch greater than the accepted amount will not
> cause an error. (ie: -m 400) until something is attempted to be done with the
> file handle. (I don't know if that's an IO::File bug or no...).
>
> I suppose it's not such a big deal, but it's come up twice at work... first
> time took some time to figure it out...
>
> (note: below site configuration is *not* where I'm having the problem ;)
>
> -craig
>
>
In principle this could be solved by a little more diagnostics. e.g.:
--- bleedperl/pp_ctl.c Wed Oct 8 14:34:00 2003
+++ bleedperl2/pp_ctl.c Sat Oct 11 15:26:59 2003
@@ -3266,6 +3266,10 @@ PP(pp_require)
}
sv_catpvn(msg, ")", 1);
SvREFCNT_dec(dirmsgsv);
+ if (errno && errno != ENOENT) {
+ sv_catpvn(msg, ": ", 2);
+ sv_catpv(msg, Strerror(errno));
+ }
msgstr = SvPV_nolen(msg);
}
DIE(aTHX_ "Can't locate %s", msgstr);
--
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