Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 14:05:12 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>,
        anders DOT undin AT katrineholm DOT mail DOT telia DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Make.exe, error message: Descriptors exhausted
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On 14 Jun 1998, George Foot wrote:

> IIRC there is a problem
> (possibly only with some DPMI hosts) that means that when djgpp
> programs are nested, the descriptors used by the child process are not
> freed up when it exits -- they remain allocated until the parent also
> exits.  Consequently, programs like Make or Bash that need to run a
> lot of children can run out of descriptors in this way.  The only
> solution is to rerun Make, or occasionally exit the Bash shell and
> restart it.
> 
> I can't remember where I read this (it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ)
> so take it with a pinch of salt.

It *is* in the FAQ (section 3.3).