[DRE-maint] Bug#778303: chef: Memory leak

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hello Piotr,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:56:38PM +0100, Piotr Pańczyk wrote:
> Hello Antonio,
> 
> On 13.02.2015 14:29, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> >Would you by any chance be able to identify the upstream commit that
> >introduced the fix? If so, I can try backporting that and releasing a
> >stable update.
> I think this is it:
> https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/291

I was looking at this, and there a few issues:

- that commit does not apply clean on the wheezy chef tree.

- there are are a few other commits in the upstream history related to
  the forking behaviour, so I think there were a few issues with this
  it. I have the the impression that it is too risky to pull this into a
  stable branch, and I won't have to spare cycles to handle the breakage
  that will probably come.

- I only use chef-solo, so testing this would a little difficult for me.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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