linux emulation file descriptor leakage -current?

[Divacky Roman]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:50:41AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> This is what happens when I start skype (NOTE: this is *not*
> limited to skype -- I see the same problem with a thunderbird
> linux binary but linux-firefox & linux-opera work fine).
> 
> $ skype &
> $ sudo sh -c " while sleep 3; do lsof |grep skype|wc; done"
>     4126   38134  495635
>     4196   38959  499830
>     4226   39229  502965
>     4266   39589  507145
>     4296   39859  510280
>     4336   40219  514460
>     4366   40489  517595
>     4406   40849  521775
>     4436   41119  524910
>     4476   41479  529090
>     4516   41839  533270
>     4546   42109  536405
>     4586   42469  540585
> ^C

I see something similar when using acroread... it sometimes (typically when
opening new file) eats all the free file descriptors and then its killed...

roman