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css 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Too Many Open Files

I ran into this issue recently [0]. Apparently the integrated VSCode terminal sets its own (very high) cap by default, but other shells don't, so all of my testing in the VSCode shell "hid" the bug that other shells exposed.

[0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/issues/314#iss...

oatsandsugar 16 days ago [–]

Yeah I ran into this too when testing a new feature. My colleague sent me this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32235/how-to-prope...

But I reckon its unreasonable for us to ask our users to know this, and we'll have to fix the underlying cause.

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