Bug #13276
Updated by floehopper (James Mead) about 7 years ago
The following terminal session demonstrates how `Dir.glob` returns an empty array when the OS has run out of file handles; whereas `File.new` raises a `Errno::EMFILE` exception.
I would expect `Dir.glob` to fail fast in a similar way to `File.new`.
~~~
$ mkdir /tmp/ruby-dir-glob-returns-empty-array-when-too-many-open-files
$ cd /tmp/ruby-dir-glob-returns-empty-array-when-too-many-open-files
$ touch foo
$ ulimit -n 16
$ ruby -e "1.upto(16).map { |i| p [i, Dir.glob('*')]; File.new('foo') }"
[1, ["foo"]]
[2, ["foo"]]
[3, ["foo"]]
[4, ["foo"]]
[5, ["foo"]]
[6, ["foo"]]
[7, ["foo"]]
[8, ["foo"]]
[9, ["foo"]]
[10, []] # Dir.glob returns empty array and does not raise exception
-e:1:in `initialize': Too many open files @ rb_sysopen - foo (Errno::EMFILE)
from -e:1:in `new'
from -e:1:in `block in <main>'
from -e:1:in `upto'
from -e:1:in `each'
from -e:1:in `map'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
~~~
The following is a counter example which shows how `Dir.new` raises an exception under the same conditions.
~~~
$ mkdir /tmp/ruby-dir-new-raises-exception-when-too-many-files-open
$ cd /tmp/ruby-dir-new-raises-exception-when-too-many-files-open
$ touch foo
$ mkdir bar
$ ulimit -n 16
$ ruby -e "1.upto(16).map { |i| p [i, Dir.new('bar')]; File.new('foo') }"
[1, #<Dir:bar>]
[2, #<Dir:bar>]
[3, #<Dir:bar>]
[4, #<Dir:bar>]
[5, #<Dir:bar>]
[6, #<Dir:bar>]
[7, #<Dir:bar>]
[8, #<Dir:bar>]
[9, #<Dir:bar>]
-e:1:in `initialize': Too many open files @ dir_initialize - bar (Errno::EMFILE)
from -e:1:in `new'
from -e:1:in `block in <main>'
from -e:1:in `upto'
from -e:1:in `each'
from -e:1:in `map'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
~~~
This is what I would expect for `Dir.glob`, i.e. I would expect an exception like this: `Too many open files @ dir_s_glob (Errno::EMFILE)` in the first example.