[Bug general/4731] Junit going crazy after test failure

["cagney at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

------- Additional Comments From cagney at redhat dot com  2007-07-03 19:45 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, if you look at the code, you see that the exception (Too many open files)
> is thrown from the Pipe object instantiation (in the native code) when
> tryGarbageCollect() is called repeatedly within a single attempt to create a
> pipe.  So, clearly there was a problem with the garbage collection process not
> being able to ensure that there were fds available for creating the pipe.

Right.  Is there any external factor that could be triggering this difference in
behavour?

> Regardless of the reason why this happened, junit shouldn't blow up over it.

While one is disputing that JUnit and the JVM should handle this more
gracefully, running out of FDs is an extreem situtation and not well-defined so
we may need to cut some slack here.

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