os.rename [Errno 31] Too many links

[Richard]

On Mar 11, 3:08 am, Thomas Guettler <h... at tbz-pariv.de> wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> > I want to atomically write to a file so have been using temporary
> > files and renaming:
>
> > temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
> > temp.file.write(data)
> > temp.file.close()
> > os.rename(temp.name, output_file)
>
> > This worked but after 39567 files os.rename raises an OSError: [Errno
> > 31] Too many links
>
> > I can still create files in this directory so I doubt it is a platform
> > limitation.
> > Can you tell what is wrong? Am I not freeing the temporary file
> > resources properly?
>
> If you are on linux you can have a look at the open file descriptors of
> a running process like this:
>
> ls -l /proc/PID/fd/
>
> But I guess it is a limitation of your filesystem. What do you use?
>
> I once had this problem with ext2. It has a low limit for
> subdirectories.
>
> With xfs the limits are much greater.
>
>   Thomas
>
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> Thomas Guettler,http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
> E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de


I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with ext3, which I believe has a limit for the
number of subdirectories but not files.

Thanks for the open file descriptor tip - I will check that out.

Richard