From 7532000706ecdfbda115744b3f31ceead124e869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Dobias <wonder.sk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:04:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Data items: Close GDAL dataset when it is not needed

This was leading to situations where QGIS was hitting limit of the maximum open files
---
 src/providers/gdal/qgsgdaldataitems.cpp | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/providers/gdal/qgsgdaldataitems.cpp b/src/providers/gdal/qgsgdaldataitems.cpp
index ea0c450f92f..be83e0df38a 100644
--- a/src/providers/gdal/qgsgdaldataitems.cpp
+++ b/src/providers/gdal/qgsgdaldataitems.cpp
@@ -43,7 +43,10 @@ QgsGdalLayerItem::QgsGdalLayerItem( QgsDataItem* parent,
   GDALDatasetH hDS = GDALOpen( TO8F( mPath ), GA_Update );
 
   if ( hDS )
+  {
     mCapabilities |= SetCrs;
+    GDALClose( hDS );
+  }
 }
 
 QgsGdalLayerItem::~QgsGdalLayerItem()