Too many open files caused by repeated decryption operations via a GPGME API

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:24, Kazunori Kobayashi said:

> On modern Linux, we can change the maximum number of file descriptors
> per process in some ways. This feature is a well-known way for long
> time operation without reboot in cases such as server machines.

That is a known problem we recently raise the priority of the feature
request https://dev.gnupg.org/T2385 to high.  Thus there is a good
chance that this problem will be solved in the not too distant future.

> https://github.com/gpg/gpgme/blob/gpgme-1.10.0/src/posix-io.c#L673

Please don't refer to github for gnupg; their copy is out of date.  Use
our https://dev.gnupg.org instead.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 227 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/attachments/20211109/b0438877/attachment.sig>