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

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:57:20 -0500):

> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> >
> > In retrospect, the "reasonable thing" to have done was to make it a
> > fatal error.  :-)
>
> Probably.  Have to live with it now that people expect it though, eh?
> There's always, "Environment variables to the rescue!" though...

PFALLOWFOOTSHOOTING=ON covers a lot of things.  :-)

> > will be using again later?"  Both the "never close the file, just in
> > case" method and the "close it immediately, regardless" method are
> > too extreme.
>
> Oh, I'm not saying, "Never close the file."  I'm saying, "Close any file
> as soon as you're done with it and know you won't need it again."

True.  But there's also "won't need it again at all", and "won't need it
again for a while".  The "won't need it again at all" situation, such as
getting company info from a control file during startup is a pretty clear
case of "close it".

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