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Re: [1.7] old-style symlink handle leak
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:36:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: [1.7] old-style symlink handle leak
- References: <loom.20081224T152703-183@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:58:02PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>Process Explorer shows that cygwin is leaking handles to dangling old-style
>symlink files during readdir. Here's a simple testcase:
>
>In cygwin 1.5:
>$ mkdir /cygdrive/c/leak
>$ ln -s nowhere linkfile
>
>In cygwin 1.7:
>$ cd /cygdrive/c/leak
>$ uname -a
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EBLAKE 1.7.0(0.190/5/3) 2008-12-23 16:07 i686 Cygwin
>$ echo *
>
>The glob forces bash to do a readdir, where it sees the old-style symlink
>created by cygwin 1.5. Thereafter, bash owns a handle to
>c:\leak\tmp\linkfile.lnk, because something in cygwin1.dll forgot to close it
>out.
Wow, nice catch. I'm not in a position to actually test this right now but it
seems like there was an obvious bug in the symlink code which I think I've fixed.
I'm building a snapshot now. If you are in a position of being able to
test this when it finally shows up I'd appreciate hearing if my changes
fixes the problem.
cgf
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