From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: handle leak
31 Jul 1998 12:57:44 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDBC96.8DA68A20.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@WOLF>
To: "'Andy Piper'" <andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Andy Piper wrote:
> The handle leak is definitely in select(). I have a version of emacs that
> only uses select when processes are active and the handle content remains
> constant at 64 under I start a subprocess at which point it rapidly jumps
> into the hundreds. If I kill the process the leakage stops.

The bug is in a new select() code. The routines cleanup_socket_thread() and 
cleanup_pipe_thread() must close corresponding thread handles before 
zeroing. I have no build environment now to rebuild a new dll :-(

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ