On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:54:16PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > > ps: my question of whether the application can do it is obviously > intended to be rhetorical...
Except it's not. The application really _can't_ -- without poking in the kernel, you can't even tell if it's safe to clean them up because the previously attached application exited or crashed. So they just accumulate, like stale SysV IPC objects, wasting inodes... -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@rek.tjls.com "All of my opinions are consistent, but I cannot present them all at once." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On The Social Contract
