Bug#301964: [pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#301964: It appears fetchmail is still leaking file descriptors on sockets

[Matthias Andree]

John Darrah <xyllyx at gmail.com> writes:

> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.2.5.4-1
> Followup-For: Bug #301964
>
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> I've noticed that fetchmail shuts down after long periods of running.
> running lsof, you can see that sockets are not being closed properly.
> After a while, there are hundreds of descriptors left in limbo.

Is there a bullet-proof way to reproduce the socket leak? Could you try
6.3.1-pre1 from http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/ to see if the
problem is fixed in that version?

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Matthias Andree