Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:07:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
cc: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>,
        DJGPP Mailing list <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: RHIDE eats file descriptors (among other things)
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> Additionally I have Norton's syswatch running, which shows me the opened
> filehandles. Now, when doing nothing there are 6 handles opened. Then I
> start RHIDE on a simple project -> 5 handles are opened!!! Yes I get
> one more free handle than loosing one when starting RHIDE!!!

I'd guess that this has nothing to do with RHIDE.  NC probably calls
COMMAND.COM to run external programs (most DOS compilers do that in
their `system' library function, although DJGPP doesn't).  One of the
first things COMMAND.COM does is to close all handles above the 5
predefined ones, which explains what you see.