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Date:      Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:17:06 +0100
From:      Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC
Message-ID:  <20031227201706.GF86308@e-Gitt.NET>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0312271351310.21415@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <20031227123148.GB77531@e-Gitt.NET> <200312271253.aa04019@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20031227132932.GA86308@e-Gitt.NET> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0312271351310.21415@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>

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Hi.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 02:01:21PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> when daemonizing you open /dev/null and dup2 it to 0,1,2
> to detach from stdin,out,err.

Yes, of course. But they still should not keep lying around when going 
to single user and should be visible in fstat / lsof, if everything were 
OK and this were just an application problem.

I'm currently checking if I can find something in older sources of 
/dev/null - although I would appreciate help in diggin' around here, I'm 
just an admin, not a programmer. And by far no kernel hacker.

- Oliver

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