On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/17/2012 04:36 AM, Devendra Naga wrote: >> we start a infinite loop when user gives ./watchdog-test, and when user >> ctrl + c's the program, we just exit immeadiately with out closing the >> filedescriptor of the watchdog device. a signal handler is used to >> do the job of closing the filedescriptor and exiting the program. > > Doesn't exiting a process close all its filehandles already? I think kernel will take care of releasing process resources. i am not so sure of it. but running valgrind --track-fds=yes ./a.out as root shows a descriptor leak. BTW, there is another miss, if the user is non-root we still leak a file descriptor. > > Rob > -- > GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. > Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one. Thanks, Devendra. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
