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Subject: Re: Inotify memory leak
From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 00:15 +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Inotify does not clean up properly when it fails to create the file
> descriptor. So it leaks kernel memory. Watch "slabtop" while running
> this program:
> 
> #include <sys/inotify.h>
> #include <unistd.h>

potential patch at
http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git/shortlog/refs/heads/for-next

Only compiled, not tested.  Will try to do that after dinner!

-Eric