file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, David Malone wrote:

> > during the machine is running on high load and after going to single
> > user mode. You can clearly see, that even though kern.openfiles still
> > shows a high number, pstat -f only finds very few files.
>
> Ahhh crud - the kern.file sysctl isn't completly calculated from
> the list of all open files - it iterates through all the processes
> to form the final list. Could you try rerunning pstat with the patch
> below - it walks the full open file list, rather than checking each
> process (this may leak open file info to people within jails on the
> machine, hopefully that is not a problem for you...)

[patch snipped]

can we somehow inlcude this w/o leaking information ? I have not
looked at it up to now but perhaps su only for none-jailed processes ?

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