file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:29:12PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >I'm currently checking if I can find something in older sources of 
> >/dev/null - although I would appreciate help in diggin' around here, I'm 
> >just an admin, not a programmer. And by far no kernel hacker.
> 
> I do not belive you will find this problem in the device driver
> source for /dev/null.  It is somewhere above that level where
> the reference fails to drop.

I guess you're right. Not only I cannot find anything suspicious, but 
you're the expert ;-)

Do you mean, there's something in the place where a daemonized process 
exits?

- Oliver

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