Bug#486826: multipathd: suspicious file descriptors

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Tue Jun 24 20:37:19 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:58:01PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:45:27PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> > Okay, a looked into this.  On a reinstall, this is the FD set of dpkg
> > and multipath-tools' postinst spawned by it directly:
> The attached patch makes sure leaked fds get closed properly.

No, it does not. It closes all fds up to the current limit. Noone says
that there are none above. Also it wastes an enormous amount of syscalls
just to workaround other programs.

Bastian

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