On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:45:25PM -0500, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 01:33 +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> > > Search bugzilla.redhat.com ... there are "bugs" in python/urllib2 which
> > > leaks file descriptors.
> >
> > I noticed this bug several times, but never really pursued it. I
> > basically run into it each time I do a full system update that involves
> > download of > ~1000 packages. (A simple re-run works around nicely...)
> > And I always wondered whether you guys, using yum much more frequently
> > than me, have a patch in python/urllib2 to work around this? I never
> > asked but repeatedly wondered... so now... have you? :-)
>
> The two ones I know about for RHEL are:
>
> [Bug 460694] urllib2 fd leak, with r.recv = r.read
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460694
>
> [Bug 460692] m2crypto leaks fds into GC
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460692
>
> ...the first one should be fixed in "newer" Fedora releases, but AIUI
> isn't fixed upstream yet.
Thank you!
Peter
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