On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:23:19PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "mutt FD leakge (display_filter?)":
> > A number of weeks ago I set display_filter=fribidi (on a UTF-8 terminal, 
> > e.g: uxterm) to display Hebrew better. I tend to keep my mutt sessions
> > as long as possible. So those leakages sum up.
> 
> Here's how you can send them a useful, researched, bug report:
> Run mutt. Look in /proc/.../fd to see how many fds are open. Read a few
> messages. Look in /proc/../fd to see how many new fds are listed there.
> Repeat without the display_filter and see (?) that no new fds are listed.
> 

Since I raised this topic, I'll just add that it is very reproducable: I
only have to set 'set display_filter=cat' (or whatever) and any message
that I see thereafter will produce exactly one unclosed file descriptor.

Naturally mutt 1.3 is no longer under development. I saw no such bug
report on bugs.deian.org . I'll post my own...

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