[screen-devel] [bug #55618] Closing half a million file descriptors on startup

[Eirik Øverby]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55618 (project screen):

I tried to apply this patch and rebuild on our freebsd build server, and
despite checking (and double-checking) that the new build is indeed installed,
screen startup (or creating a new screen) takes ages.

It is trying to close file descriptors starting with the highest-permitted
number, truss logging the following until it reaches 3, after which the
initial screen is created and the whole process starts again:


32919: getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE,{ cur=7545213,max=7545213 }) = 0 (0x0)
32919: close(7545212)                            ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
32919: close(7545211)                            ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
32919: close(7545210)                            ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
.....
32919: close(5)                                  ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
32919: close(4)                                  ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'
32919: close(3)                                  ERR#9 'Bad file descriptor'


Suggestions welcome..

/Eirik

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