Cope better with a _lot_ of packs

You might end up with a situation where you have tons of pack files, e.g.
when using hg2git.  In this situation, all kinds of operations may
end up with a "too many files open" error.  Let's recover gracefully from
that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Looks-right-to-me-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 28bd9082fc9f4b79519f6bef8204600072c07027..bd5edd8e657536e60fcb68d427df134c84f816c5 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -720,6 +720,8 @@ static int open_packed_git_1(struct packed_git *p)
                return error("packfile %s index unavailable", p->pack_name);
 
        p->pack_fd = open(p->pack_name, O_RDONLY);
+       while (p->pack_fd < 0 && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(p, -1))
+               p->pack_fd = open(p->pack_name, O_RDONLY);
        if (p->pack_fd < 0 || fstat(p->pack_fd, &st))
                return -1;
 
@@ -937,6 +939,8 @@ static void prepare_packed_git_one(char *objdir, int local)
        sprintf(path, "%s/pack", objdir);
        len = strlen(path);
        dir = opendir(path);
+       while (!dir && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(packed_git, -1))
+               dir = opendir(path);
        if (!dir) {
                if (errno != ENOENT)
                        error("unable to open object pack directory: %s: %s",
@@ -2339,6 +2343,8 @@ static int write_loose_object(const unsigned char *sha1, char *hdr, int hdrlen,
 
        filename = sha1_file_name(sha1);
        fd = create_tmpfile(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), filename);
+       while (fd < 0 && errno == EMFILE && unuse_one_window(packed_git, -1))
+               fd = create_tmpfile(tmpfile, sizeof(tmpfile), filename);
        if (fd < 0) {
                if (errno == EACCES)
                        return error("insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database %s\n", get_object_directory());