Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Fail gracefully
Date: Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020, 20:43:36

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > /c/cs323/Hwk1/fiend ///
    > The staff solution will keep on running even after "fiend:
    > opendir(///home/accts/aspnes/.esmtp_queue/.....) failed"
    >
    > Should it exit after the "the depth of the depth-first traversal exceeds
    > the number of file pointers available."?
    >
    > i.e. in this case, exit the first time when it cannot opendir due to the
    > lack of file pointers available.

That behavior is permitted but not required.

--Stan-