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From: John C. <joh...@ta...> - 2003-04-22 06:05:21
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > On 20 Apr 2003, Robert Walsh wrote: > > > The attached patch to the CVS head tracks open file descriptors and > > dumps them out at the end of the run. > > Just curious: have you tried this with many real programs, eg. Mozilla, > OpenOffice, KDE or Gnome apps? Did you find in practice that leaked file > descriptors is a common problem? Its not a common problem, since it tends to show up fairly quickly on most apps. But I have seen it happen on a live system that has been operating for years... I still don't know where that leak was, so such an addition to valgrind would be most welcome. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : joh...@ta... New Zealand A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on your system. |