Bug#486826: multipathd: suspicious file descriptors

[Ferenc Wagner]

Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

I agree you shouldn't hide bugs in dpkg.  I opened bug #487684, which
hasn't been acknowledged yet.

I think you can close this bug as invalid, and sorry for the noise.

I would still be grateful for a pointer on /dev/console routing, though.
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Regards,
Feri.