Opendir: Too many open files

Question

I am writing this code to print all files in /home/keepwith skip paths:

#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

void catDIR(const char *re_path);

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *top_path = "/home/keep";
    catDIR(top_path);
    return 0;
}

void catDIR(const char *re_path)
{
    DIR *dp;
    struct stat file_info;
    struct dirent *entry;

    if ((dp = opendir(re_path)) == NULL)
    {
        perror("opendir");
        return;
    }
    while (entry = readdir(dp))
    {
        if (entry->d_name[0] == '.')
            continue;

        //get Absolute path
        char next_path[PATH_MAX];
        strcpy(next_path, re_path);
        strcat(next_path, "/");
        strcat(next_path, entry->d_name);

        lstat(next_path, &file_info);

        if (S_ISDIR(file_info.st_mode))
        {
            catDIR(next_path);
        }
        else
        {
            printf("%s/%s\n", re_path, entry->d_name);
        }
    }
    free(dp);
    free(entry);
}

When I launched it.

Not only print some path to the file, but also print an error message:

opendir: Too many open files

I read man 3 opendirand then realized that I opened too many files.

I want to know how to close it? and how to fix this program

Answer 1

You should probably use closedirit when you finish the iteration through the contents of the directory.

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Answer 2

cat/proc/sys/fs/file-nr

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