Re: [Valgrind-users] File descriptors

[David E. <tw...@us...>]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:40 +0200, Stephan Menzel wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm using valgrind a lot to fix memleaks and achieved remarkable results, so 
> thanks a lot!
> However, I'm wondering if I could use valgrind to track lost file descriptors. 
> I've got a demon in thread mode here which is, thanks to valgrind, now 
> virtually free of memleaks but it still 'leaks' file desriptors. After a 
> certain time (not predictable yet but still more than a day) it runs out of 
> and must be restarted. Obviously there are resources (sockets?) allocated or 
> files opened and not properly closed after the threads have finished their 
> (rather short and distinct) tasks. Can I track those with valgrind?

Don't forget that you have "strace" available...

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