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SubjectRe: fds jumping between processes
Bah, forget it! firefox problem. Sorry for the noise.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:09:03AM +0200, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> Hello,
> here is quite an open bug report... I could not reproduce this again, but it
> involves the fds opened of a killed process being passed to another process, or
> something like this.
>
> I'm using vanilla 2.6.33.3 in x86_64.
> I was using skype, talking through it using alsa, and trying the
> 'share desktop' feature, it died. Starting it again, it could not open the alsa
> device. Using fuser:
>
> ...:/dev/snd]$ fuser *
> controlC0: 32341
> pcmC0D0p: 32341
> timer: 32341
>
> Which that was:
> $ ps ax | grep 323
> 32341 ? S 0:01 /home/xxx/.nix-profile/bin/xpdf /tmp/xxx.pdf
>
> So, after skype (using alsa) died, the xpdf process took the soundcard fds
> skype had. It does not make much sense xpdf to use sound... so I guess something
> worth looking happened.
>
> I don't have more details. Killing xpdf made the new skype open the alsa device
> properly.
>
> Sorry for not having analised the situation better. Now I cannot reproduce it
> anymore. Maybe this will make someone knowing say "ah, let me look if ...". I
> just thought if this is a bug in the kernel, it can involve security problems.
>
> Thank you,
> Lluís.
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