Re: Bug in freeing File Descriptors

Jeff,

If you send a tested patch against LiS 2.18.1 (soon to be released),
I will apply it.  It might be an idea to add a test case to strtst
to regression test this as well.

--brian

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jeff Goldszer wrote:

> 
>    Compile  and  run  the  following test. The file descriptor is flushed
>    from the queue but never closed. The result is LiS does not unload.
> 
> 
>    The sad part about this is I submitted a fix for this, 2 years ago. It
>    was lobbied to take it out and no one decided to fix it.
> 
> 
> 
>    The command line to compile this is cc -o test -l LiS test.c
> 
>    Assuming of cause the program is cut and pasted into test.c.
> 
> 
>    #include <unistd.h>
> 
>    #include <stropts.h>
> 
> 
>    main()
> 
>    {
> 
>        int a[2];
> 
>        int b[2];
> 
> 
>        pipe(a);
> 
>        pipe(b);
> 
> 
>        ioctl(a[0], I_SENDFD, b[0]);
> 
>        close(b[0]);
> 
>        close(a[1]);
> 
>    }
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    Jeff Goldszer
> 
>    Senior Software Engineer
> 
>    Alebra Technologies
> 
>    9915 66th Avenue
> 
>    Apartment 2C
> 
>    Rego Park, NY 11374
> 
>    Phone: 718-606-8535
> 
>    FAX:  718-606-8536

-- 
Brian F. G. Bidulock    ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦
[email protected]    ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in  ¦
http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying  to adapt the  world  to himself. ¦
                        ¦ Therefore  all  progress  depends on the ¦
                        ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦