Process Explorer shows that cygwin is leaking handles to dangling old-style symlink files during readdir. Here's a simple testcase:
In cygwin 1.5: $ mkdir /cygdrive/c/leak $ ln -s nowhere linkfile In cygwin 1.7: $ cd /cygdrive/c/leak $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EBLAKE 1.7.0(0.190/5/3) 2008-12-23 16:07 i686 Cygwin $ echo * The glob forces bash to do a readdir, where it sees the old-style symlink created by cygwin 1.5. Thereafter, bash owns a handle to c:\leak\tmp\linkfile.lnk, because something in cygwin1.dll forgot to close it out. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
