Re: BUG: file descriptors leak when sys_pipe failed with -EFAULT

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Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The consequences of this are that the application may eventually run out of
> file descriptors and they will be cleaned up when the application exits
> anyway, so it isn't terribly serious.

If an application is calling pipe(2) with bogus pointers then
leaving open file descriptors behind is the least of its worries.
So I think fixing this is really a waste of time.  But whatever.

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