Bug#568607: libogg-vorbis-perl: dup syscall yields fd leak

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2010-02-06 21:59:24 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> With the following testcase, if I provide any (non-corrupt) ogg file
> as an argument, I get a segmentation fault after the number 1021 is
> printed. Actually the cause is that a file descriptor is created by
> the dup syscall at each iteration and is never closed, as shown by
> strace.

The dup is probably caused by Debian patch

  bts389571_give-ov_open-duplicate-handle.patch

which has:

+       dupfile = fdopen(dup(fileno(file)), "r");

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