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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: 18.53 fails to close socket on 'unreachable host' error
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Date: 31 Mar 89 23:35:44 GMT
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In 18.53, process.c, near line 1118, lies the following text:

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  s = socket (host_info->h_addrtype, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
  if (s < 0) 
    report_file_error ("error creating socket", Fcons (name, Qnil));

  if (connect (s, &address, sizeof address) == -1)
    error ("Host \"%s\" not responding", XSTRING (host)->data);
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If the connect fails, the filedes 's' is not reclaimed with a
'close(s)'.  Eventually, you will run out of file descriptors (as I
did when scanning for hosts that support a particular server).  Fix:
add close(s) under that last if (curly braced, of course) before the
error() call.

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