From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix handle leak in builtin-pack-objects
Message-ID: <81b0412b0811190413s29644092y86d1c8840e10c28b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4923FE58.3090503@viscovery.net>

2008/11/19 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Alex Riesen schrieb:
>> The opened packs seem to stay open forever.
>
> In my MinGW port I have the patch below that avoids that t5303 fails
> because of a pack file that remains open. (Open files cannot be replaced
> on Windows.) I had hoped that your patch would help, but it does not.
> Something else still keeps the pack file open. Can anything be done about
> that?
>

Do this _and_ the other handle-leak-patch together help?
(I think the second should)

> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:25:19 +0100

BTW, you better report such things. Even though it is typical
for this platform brokenness, leaking open files is never good.