Re: Total failure in dav layer when >1024 files already open

Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

> On 6/2/06, Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>> > It's not exactly strange that it would fail, you've hit the per-user
>> > file descriptor limit.
>>
>> Exactly what I thought, except that the first thing he does is to bump
>> the ulimit to 32k, which should be plenty. I wonder if Neon has a
>> problem with fds > 1024?
>
> Hmm. Interesting. Maybe something OS X specific?

neon-0.25.5/NEWS:

| Changes in release 0.25.3:
| * ne_lock() and ne_unlock(): fix cases where NE_ERROR would be returned
| instead of e.g. NE_AUTH on auth failure.
| * Prevent use of poll() on Darwin.
| * Fix gethostbyname-based resolver on LP64 platforms (Matthew Sanderson).

If Neon cannot use poll(), then it must use select(), which has
an intrinsic FD_SETSIZE limit. GNU libc on Linux defines
FD_SETSIZE as 1024; perhaps it is the same on OS X.