From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: close /dev/urandom fd (e2fsprogs 1.40-WIP (7-Apr-2007))
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl8sbgrb.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615220853.GI14911@thunk.org> (Theodore Tso's message of "Fri\, 15 Jun 2007 18\:08\:54 -0400")
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> The file descriptor opened on /dev/urandom can be closed sooner:
>
> Is there a reason why the caching of the open file descriptor for
> /dev/random is causing you problems? Keeping it open was deliberate.
I saw it open at exit, missed the 'static' and thought it was an fd leak.
Désolé.
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2007-06-15 20:28 close /dev/urandom fd (e2fsprogs 1.40-WIP (7-Apr-2007)) Jim Meyering
2007-06-15 22:08 ` Theodore Tso
2007-06-16 5:38 ` Jim Meyering [this message]
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