Dan Kegel wrote: > The wineserver is process 1247, and sure enough, ls /proc/1247 shows > file descriptors as high as 973 in use. The default ulimit -n is 1024, > so it probably briefly exceeded that. If you think that's low, on Mac OS X the default FD limit is 256! You can only open 256 handles before the system says EMFILE. > No idea what those ld.so errors are, though. Anyway, recall that all loading of shared libraries is done by ld.so in userland. I'd venture a guess that ld.so opens the file, then tries to mmap(2) the file into memory. Key words: "opens the file". It, too is running out of FDs. That's probably why you're getting the dlopen(3)-related error. Chip