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Offline rheosiva

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How to find File Descriptors Leak using API calls
« on: March 31, 2009, 12:06:54 PM »
how to check file descriptors leak.. using a C program..
which Specific call is should be used to achieve this...
Please help me regards

Offline dragoncity99

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Re: How to find File Descriptors Leak using API calls
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 04:05:41 PM »
Errr...do you mean file locks ?

1. Use fuser or lsof to identify the processes holding it up.

2. If memory leak, use valgrind for example.

3. If you can suspect a process is the culprit, run an strace against that process.