[Gdal-dev] GDAL fails when I try to open a large number of files.

[John Hayes]

Hi,
	I'm trying to mosaic +1500 TIFF files and GDAL fails to open the 1414 file.  I'm using my own mosaiking code that opens all the files first and keeps around the GDALDataset objects.  It looks like it is running out of file handles.  I would prefer not to create and delete a GDALDataset object for each strip of the image I read.

Is there a way to control if the file handle is left open between read calls? 

John Hayes