gweather-applet eats up file descriptors

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:55, Brian Gruber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that every time gweather-applet2 updates it's weather data, it
> consumes 4 file descriptors (according to lsof).  It never seems to give
> them back until the process is killed.  This is a big problem for me as
> I tend to stay logged in for days at a time, and eventually there are no
> more file descriptors available to new processes, which wreaks all kinds
> of havoc as you can imagine.  Last time I saw this problem, lsof
> reported over 2700 open files belonging to gweather-applet2 (almost half
> of all those on my system).  for the record, this is up-to-date ports on
> 5.1-RELEASE.

I've seen quite a few applets that do this file descriptor dance.  Have
you searched the GNOME Bugzilla database for this one?  File descriptor
leaks are frequently fixed in CVS, so maybe this is a known issue.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
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