On tis, 2012-04-17 at 10:47 +0200, Václav Ovsík wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:53:17PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Calling lvs directly from the command line also shows messages about
> > leaked file descriptors, so I'm not convinced that this is a problem in
> > anacron.
> 
> I don't know what you mean "lvs directly from the command line". I never
> noticed such messages from LVM commands ran from bash, dash.

Well, zsh ... ;-)

>  The only
> other case I noticed is LVM under Midnight Commander. Midnight Commander
> has this problem too. Hmm, I should report this problem on MC too :).

Interesting.  I'm not sure why lvs is in the business of complaining
about file descriptor leaks in its parent processes.  It might be worth
fixing them, but I'd like to understand this a bit better first.

> I ran the Anacron trough strace and after a short inspection of lvs
> message and strace output I found one of leaked descriptors. The
> following attached patch solves the message in the test case.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm afraid it is only a part :(.
> But as I'm looking back on other leaked descriptors I originally
> reported, these are probably inherited from parent processes of Anacron.
> 
> Can you accept the attached patch or rewrite it to your taste (maybe
> report upstream)? I think, that after applying the fix this bug can be
> closed. Other leaked descriptors should be reported to other packages.

I'll look into it.





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