Re: [Archer] [patch] PR python/10344

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

On 09/23/2009 04:44 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > The only thing I can think to do in this case is just to add one more
> > level to the maximum uiout levels. I am not sure why the initial level
> > is set at such a small level. The uiout level struct is not particularly
> > large. Anyway, what do you think? This fixes the PR.
> >      
> The only thing I can think of is protecting ourselves against reaching
> the maximum number of open file descriptors? Perhaps it's ridiculously
> low on certain systems? I'd have a hard time believing that raising
> MAX_UI_OUT_LEVELS from 6 to 7 would make any difference so I would be
> inclined to give it a try.  I looked at the history of this constant,
> and it was initially defined as 5, and then raised to 6 without much
> comment in order to fix PR cli/654.
>
> I forgot how to convert old PR numbers into the new ones (I need to
> write this down in my tips-and-tricks file). Anyone remembers?
>
>    

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7759

But yeah, not much in there other than what was on the list. I think, it 
had some vague to do with hurd from reading around the gmane archives.

There are other cases where the limit was exceeded but these exclusively 
refer to bugs with cleanups.

Regards

Phil