Too Many Open Files (was Re: The CLOSE command)

[Tony Ryder]

What about just using close or close filename before returning
from a chained or called processing table.

Tony Ryder


|There is a company that I used to work for that for
|years has been getting these "Too many open files"
|errors from time to time.  In fact certain processes
|would get them all the time.  I could never figure out
|why before, but it seems to make sense now.  The
|original programmer there made extensive use of
|chained and called processing tables.  There were many
|lookups and re-use of lookup aliases.
|
|If anyone else is getting this error I would suggest
|that they be on the lookout for this "feature"
|
|Perhaps a solution for this that fptech could supply
|would be a PFCLOSEONCHAIN and a PFCLOSEONCALL
|environment variable, and perhaps a CLOSEALL command. 
|The CLOSEALL command would close all open files (via
|lookups) if called without any arguments.  With
|arguments, it would close all files associated with
|the entire filepro file(s) specified.
|
|Jeff Harrison
|jeffaharrison at yahoo.com