Re: Many new test failures (execvp: Too many open files)

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> I'll try that out tomorrow morning. On irc we discussed the problem of
> leaking file descriptors in things like Elf objects which currently seem
> to rely on garbage collection to close out unused descriptors. So it
> might also be some subtle change in memory use that make the garbage
> collector trigger earlier or later. In that case it is probably that we
> just fail to close()/destroy() the right object at the right time.
>   

Thanks.