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Resolver cannot be created if inotify is broken or out of file descriptors #150

@bdraco

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@bdraco

Looks like inotify runs out of file descriptors and c-ares failed to init the channel

94498 epoll_pwait(7,  <unfinished ...>
94497 <... inotify_init1 resumed>)      = -1 EMFILE (No file descriptors available)
94497 write(9, "1", 1)             
homeassistant:/config# strace -f -s4096 -o cares.log python3 aiodns_test.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/config/aiodns_test.py", line 9, in <module>
    asyncio.run(test_cares())
    ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/runners.py", line 195, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/runners.py", line 118, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/asyncio/base_events.py", line 719, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/config/aiodns_test.py", line 6, in test_cares
    resolver = aiodns.DNSResolver()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aiodns/__init__.py", line 67, in __init__
    self._channel = pycares.Channel(event_thread=True,
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                    timeout=timeout,
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                    **kwargs)
                                    ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pycares/__init__.py", line 422, in __init__
    raise AresError('Failed to initialize c-ares channel')
pycares.AresError: Failed to initialize c-ares channel

originally reported in home-assistant/core#144457

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