Bug#492282: "seahorse-agent --execute" leaks file descriptors

Stefan Fritsch sf at sfritsch.de
Fri Jul 25 11:30:36 UTC 2008


> Indeed, this can easily be confirmed by looking at
gnome-session�s file
> descriptors.
>
> However it seems that gnome-session itself correctly closes the file
> descriptors before spawning anything else, so they are not leaked
> further. What makes you think all desktop processes will inherit from
> them?

This explains why this bug hasn't been found before. I use KDE and no KDE
desktop process seems to clean up the file descriptors. Therefore for me,
every bash started in every terminal has those file descriptors.








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