[uClibc]Re: file descriptor (socket) leakage

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Thu May 29 22:38:52 UTC 2003


On Thu May 29, 2003 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Tomislav Sajdl wrote:
> I found what was the problem - freeswan tried to do syslog(), but there was no 
> syslogd; other program we used tries to do something similar, although not 
> via syslog.

But then, based on your earlier bug report, that means that
calling syslog() a zillion times is opening a zillion sockets and
thereby leaving a zillion file descriptors open, right?  I took a
quick look at uClibc's syslog.c and I do not see how that could
happen though.

 -Erik

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