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What's the point to keep mmaped objectfile opened?


From: rixed
Subject: What's the point to keep mmaped objectfile opened?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:15:14 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

I'm a little worried by the amount of file descriptors left opened
after the objcode is mmaped.
I saw this "note to self" from objcodes.c:

/* FIXME: we leak ourselves and the file descriptor. but then again so does     
                 
   dlopen(). */

So apparently the author was well aware of the problem but decided to
ignore it, despite the fd being used nowhere as far as I can see
(also, I don't understand the remark about dlopen leaking a fd).

Anyway, the attached patch (which closes the fd and stores -1 inplace
of it in the cell) seams to works and seams to fix the issue (ie. no more
pending opened fd for .go files)

Attachment: guile-close-fd-on-mmap.patch
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