Ticket #3798 (new defect)
MC is leaking a pipe to executed programs
| Reported by: | 0xe2.0x9a.0x9b | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | Future Releases |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | 4.8.19 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | 0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.19
Steps to reproduce the bug:
- Run "sleep 100" from Midnight Commander
- Run "htop" in another terminal
- Find "sleep 100" in htop and press "l" to list open files
- The list of open files contains "8 FIFO 0xa 3977158 pipe"
Expected result:
- The list of open files does not contain "8 FIFO 0xa 3977158 pipe"
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The following might be related to fixing the issue:
man pipe2
O_CLOEXEC