in reply to perl bug? illegal seek with dup and many filehandles

while you fd limit may be sufficient you may have a ulimit in the shell that the script is called from, run 
ulimit -n

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and if it's too low run 
ulimit -n $bigNumber

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Re^2: perl bug? illegal seek with dup and many filehandles
by flipper (Beadle) on Oct 30, 2008 at 16:41 UTC
    ulimit -n 100000 has no effect - it changes the same thing as the setrlimit() call
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