File exhaustion,bugfixes + some test changes/readditions

[Brian T. Rice]

It looks good. I've applied them except for commenting out 
provides:/requires:, instead adding stub methods to root.slate.

Lendvai Attila wrote:
> Hi!
>  
> Here's a diff, please take a look and apply if you find it useful.
>  
> Bye,
>  
> - 101
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