File Descriptor release?
Yoshiki Ohshima
yoshiki at squeakland.org
Fri Oct 13 20:51:06 UTC 2006
Ian,
> The unix vm caches the last open directory to speed up directory
> searches. (Because of the way the image searches directories, this
> caching results in linear time instead of exponential with the size of
> the directory.) If you change away from /mnt in the file list you
> should be able to umount from the terminal. If not, ignore this
> entire message. ;-)
Ah, now I check maybeOpenDir().
So, since the speed up is indispensable, probably Squeak-level code
should visit the defaultDirectory. to flush the cache on some
occasions?
-- Yoshiki
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