gpeme_get_key returns a 'general error' after some time.

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Feb 17 19:31:58 CET 2010


On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:48, f.schwind at chili-radiology.com said:

> I'm getting a fd > 256 which seams to be the maximum of fds gpgme can
> handle. It might be some sort of design-issue in my software causing
> so many open fds, but I'd still like to overcome this fd

Actually not, there is quite some software out which uses a lot of fds.
On my system, the default number of FDs is 1024 (ulimit -n) and thus it
coult happen here as well. 

We need to change the datatructure.

> the notify_table. So could I just increase the size of the
> notify_table without breaking things?

Should pose no problem.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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