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Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65
On Nov 23 17:43, Huang Bambo wrote:
> 2009/11/23 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> > On Nov 22 09:33, Huang Bambo wrote:
> >> And there's another quesiton:
> >> The handle of chile process( created by fork ) seems never been closed
> >> bye parent process. Is it need to be closed?
> >
> > I don't understand the question. ?There's one dangling socket handle left
> > and I know where and why it happens. ?Other than that, I don't see any
> > other socket handling which is left open accidentally.
> >
> While run my last test code, every time comes one connection, there
> are 3 handle leak( I monited it by Process Explorer( from
> www.sysinternals.com)), one is the chile process's handle, one is of
> "Section \BaseNamedObjects\cygwin1S5-9770bb4ddbd85dca\cygpid.xxxx",
> the other one is of \Device\Afd.
> I mean is there any other leak with those handles.
The leak is a result of the parent process not calling wait(2) or
waitpid(2) to reap the child process. If you let the process properly
call wait/waitpid, you won't see a leak, except for the current socket
leak this thread is about.
Corinna
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