file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 11:20:29PM +0100, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
> Since IPv6 is configured on the host and was in /etc/hosts (but not in
> DNS) I saw a lot of failed connections to ::1 (the daemons only listened
> on the IPv4 ports on localhost). I removed localhost pointing to ::1
> from /etc/hosts and the failed connections disappeared. But the problem 
> with leaking file descriptors keep the same, so it's not related to 
> localhost connections via inet6 refused on this host.

ANother addition: changing the connects away from localhost does not 
change anything. So it still seems to be somewhere in the handling of 
tcp sockets in perl or whatever.

- Oliver

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