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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2006 23:33:07 GMT
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/97326: file descriptor leakage in linux emulation
Message-ID:  <200605152333.k4FNX7jw021014@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200605152340.k4FNeJuu029578@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         97326
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       file descriptor leakage in linux emulation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 15 23:40:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bakul Shah
>Release:        -current
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD free.bitblocks.com 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Sun May 14 14:54:07 PDT 2006     root@free.bitblocks.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/R40  i386

>Description:
Run skype from ports.  Login.  Do
    while sleep 3; do lsof|grep skype|wc; done
and watch the count climb.  The same things happens with
linux versions of thunderbird, firefox and opera and
may be more.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above
>Fix:
Revert /sys/compat/{linux,linprocfs} and /sys/i386/linux to
about April 15th state.  Recompile linux and linprocfs modules,
reinstall them and reboot.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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