From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/watchdog: Fix the file descriptor leak when no cmdline arg given
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 09:13:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB50780.3020904@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337247411-28082-1-git-send-email-devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
On 05/17/2012 04:36 AM, Devendra Naga wrote:
> we start a infinite loop when user gives ./watchdog-test, and when user
> ctrl + c's the program, we just exit immeadiately with out closing the
> filedescriptor of the watchdog device. a signal handler is used to
> do the job of closing the filedescriptor and exiting the program.
Doesn't exiting a process close all its filehandles already?
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 14:13 UTC|newest]
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2012-05-17 9:36 [PATCH] Documentation/watchdog: Fix the file descriptor leak when no cmdline arg given Devendra Naga
2012-05-17 14:13 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2012-05-17 14:33 ` devendra.aaru
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2012-05-17 9:37 Devendra Naga
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