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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: gdb forgets to close file descriptors for inferior
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gdb in -current forgets to close file descriptors 3 and 4 before
execing the inferior process.  ftstat output:

bde      z           9495    3 /           885 -rwxr-xr-x    9725  r
bde      z           9495    4 /           885 -rwxr-xr-x    9725  r
bde      gdb         9494    3 /           885 -rwxr-xr-x    9725  r
bde      gdb         9494    4 /           885 -rwxr-xr-x    9725  r

Here `z' is the binary being debugged and 885 is its inode.

This usually doesn't matter, but having 2 fewer than the normal
number of fd's available might caused the debugged process to
behave abnormally, and certain regression tests fail.

Bruce