| Subject: | Leaking descriptors when processes disappear during proc file being read |
It seems there is a bug in C code in read_file. If read() call returns -1 then file this function returns
NULL, but descriptor is not closed. When Proc::ProcessTable reads file in /proc for particular process
and that process disappears during that read then read returns -1 (ESRCH), and file descriptor is NOT
closed.
This actually proved fatal on busy server in long running process.