[Valgrind-users] FD leakage

[Steve G <lin...@ya...>]

Hi,

The new fd leakage reporting in valgrind 2.1.0 is a good
addition. I have a couple of ideas that I would like to pass on.
It would be nice if valgrind reported any fd > 2 when: system(),
popen(), or exec() was called. This is almost always a security
problem. 

Then there's a certain case that should get special attention. If
the parent process leaks a listening descriptor, Bad Things can
happen. A listening descriptor can be identified by 2 things, it
is a socket and it has its address set to INADDR_ANY or
IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED.

Would this be hard to add? Does anyone else see the value of the
above?

-Steve Grubb

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