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Message-ID: <87sl8sbgrb.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:38:48 +0200
From:	Jim Meyering <jim@...ering.net>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: close /dev/urandom fd (e2fsprogs 1.40-WIP (7-Apr-2007))

Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:28:40PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> The file descriptor opened on /dev/urandom can be closed sooner:
>
> Is there a reason why the caching of the open file descriptor for
> /dev/random is causing you problems?  Keeping it open was deliberate.

I saw it open at exit, missed the 'static' and thought it was an fd leak.
Désolé.
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