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Re: PATCH: PR gold/17896: Plugin_manager::release_input_file leaks file descriptors
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:28:40 -0800
- Subject: Re: PATCH: PR gold/17896: Plugin_manager::release_input_file leaks file descriptors
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- References: <20150128180803 dot GA15015 at intel dot com>
> + PR gold/17896
> + * plugin.cc: Include <unistd.h> and <cerrno>.
> + (Plugin_manager::release_input_file): Close file descriptor when
> + called from the claim_file hook. Otherwise, release the object.
> + if (::close(f.fd) < 0)
File descriptors for object files are managed by the Descriptors
class; we should never call ::close() directly.
Calling obj->unlock() on the file should be sufficient to release the
descriptor. It may not be closed immediately, but it will get closed
eventually if we get close to running out of file descriptors. If
Descriptors::close_some_descriptor() for some reason doesn't consider
that descriptor available for closing, then there's a bug elsewhere.
-cary