Process Builder waitFor() issue and Open file limitations

Question

I have inherited some code:

Process p = new ProcessBuilder(\"/bin/chmod\", \"777\", path).start();
p.waitFor();

Basically, there is for som

Answer 1

It seems unlikely that the process would actually complete without closing the files. Could this be happening in a very large # of threads? Or perhaps some of them are not actually completing (ie, it is hanging at waitFor in some cases)?

Otherwise, I think you will be stuck with increasing the open files limit. Assuming that this is a Unix-like system, the "ulimit" command is probably what you are looking for.