Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:29:43 -0500 From: "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org> To: dexterclarke@Safe-mail.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: auditpipe leak? Message-ID: <20071023222943.GB4815@sub.vaned.net> In-Reply-To: <N1-XZ6XLHAihD@Safe-mail.net> References: <N1-XZ6XLHAihD@Safe-mail.net>
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:47:21PM -0400, dexterclarke@Safe-mail.net wrote: [..] > > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 137 21 Oct 17:51 /dev/auditpipe0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 138 21 Oct 17:51 /dev/auditpipe1 > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 141 21 Oct 17:51 /dev/auditpipe2 > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 142 21 Oct 17:51 /dev/auditpipe3 > crw------- 1 root wheel 0, 143 21 Oct 17:51 /dev/auditpipe4 > > The numbers seem to increment forever, in testing, I got up to > /dev/auditpipe50 before rebooting to clean them up (I expect > just restarting devfs would've been enough, in retrospect). > This is not a leak, this is a side effect of how device cloning works in devfs. IIRC these will be garbaged collected at some point, and faster if the system requires the resources. -- Christian S.J. Peron csjp@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Committer
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