File descriptor leak in pam_winbind.so

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:49:22AM -0400, jra at dp.samba.org wrote about 'Re: File descriptor leak in pam_winbind.so':
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:44:51PM +0100, Paul Flinders wrote:
> >   	return retval;
> > + }
> > + 
> > + void __attribute__ ((destructor))  unload () 
> > + {
> > + 	/* Make sure socket is closed on unload of dll, some apps use PAM in
> > + 	   a manner which leaks FDs otherwise */
> > + 	close_sock();
> This is *horribly* non-portable I'm afraid. If you need this
> can you provide an autoconf test that will determine if this
> hideous construct (__attribute__ ((destructor))  unload ()) is
> supported on the current platform/compiler.
Afaik _fini does about the same but I'm not sure how portable that is
either...

Jelmer

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