spawn EMFILE about shelljs

[stephenmathieson]

you're likely to get all sorts of errors opening 20,000 files at once...

[jfsiii]

@arturadib Have you considered using https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs instead of fs? https://github.com/isaacs/node-graceful-fs#improvements-over-fs-module lists attempts to avoid EMFILE errors as a feature.

[fasiha]

Any simple work-around?

Edit: on Mac OS X, ulimit -n 10000 in the same shell as node worked per thread on nodejs list.

[nfischer]

Closing this. It looks like a user issue, not a ShellJS issue. If someone can't find a suitable workaround, they can try to use graceful-fs as a global patch of the fs module. This is not officially supported, nor has it been tested.