Bug 520154

Summary:	installer leaks filedescriptors of /dev/null
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Reiser <jreiser>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Joel Andres Granados <jgranado>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description John Reiser 2009-08-28 16:23:45 UTC

Description of problem: During "Starting installation process" when the installer is reading the headers from .rpm files on DVD, the installer process has over 200 filedesriptors open to /dev/null.  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-12.17 (rawhide of Friday Aug 28)

How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot DVD for install, proceed until "Starting installation process"
2. switch to VT2, use "ps ax" to find installer process "python /usr/bin/anaconda"
3. ls -l /proc/<pid_of_installer>/fd
  
Actual results: about 250 open filedescriptors, with over 200 of them being /dev/null


Expected results: at most a couple dozen open file descriptors


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Comment 1 Joel Andres Granados 2009-09-02 12:13:59 UTC

So I don't forget:
This is probably caused by the new tee stuff in execWithRedirect.

Comment 2 Joel Andres Granados 2009-09-17 14:45:38 UTC

This will be fixed in the next version of anaconda (12-26)