On Sep 13, 2008, at 10:44 AM, ara.t.howard wrote: > > i just releases version 0.0.4 of forkoff. should not affect your > issue, but might want to install anyhow (just pushed to rubyforge - > might have to wait for it propagate or grab the gem from there > manually) I just tested 0.0.4, and it seems to work just as well as threadify at keeping the file descriptors under control. Using the same test code produces - bradv:bvolz:$ ruby forkoff-test.rb child : 47335 filenos : [0, 1, 2, 4] paths : [nil, nil, nil, nil] that was the first pass, and here is the last -- child : 47600 filenos : [0, 1, 2, 3, 5] paths : [nil, nil, nil, nil, nil] bradv:bvolz:$ Many thanks for your help and for releasing these gems to the public. cheers! Brad