Oleg Katsitadze <olegkat <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:12:44PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: > > I noticed this when running the new gendocs.sh on the Autoconf tree on > > cygwin; when I tried the same process on Linux, there was no problem. > > Since cygwin enforces a smaller cap on number of open fd, I suspect that > > makeinfo might have an fd leak, although I have not investigated further > > at this point. I reproduced this by using 'gmake web-manual' using the > > latest autoconf.git. > > I don't have cygwin, but I've done some checks on Debian's makeinfo > (4.11), and didn't find any problems:
The leak turned out to be in cygwin code: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00973.html -- Eric Blake
