On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:15:44AM +0200, Henri DF wrote:
> <quote>Calls to read_file open the file but don't close it. Because OCaml 
> uses a 
> full garbage collector chan isn't collected until some (unknown, 
> asynchronous) time later when the minor heap becomes full. This means that 
> open file descriptors build up waiting to be collected in one go. If files 
> is a long list, then this code is likely to fail when the OS limit on the 
> number of open files is reached.
> </quote>

Yes, I think this part of the tutorial is wrong.

Rich.

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