Bug 155502

Summary: Windowmaker inherits a useless file-descriptor for ~/.fonts-cache-2 to bash
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Michael Gross <mgross>
Component: X11 ApplicationsAssignee: Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 6   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Description Michael Gross 2006-03-06 18:00:21 UTC 
WindowMaker inherits an open file descriptor to started shells (bash running both in xterm or konsole) pointing to ~/.fonts-cache-2. This is not related to kdm or xdm, as starting it with `startx' does the same. Also this seems to be WindowMaker specific as this problem doesn't ocurr with fvwm2. If one starts a `konsole' out of the xterm, the fd is even duplicated and there are 2 open descriptors to the font chache (you verify this by executing `ll /proc/$$/fd/*' in an active shell). This is not only useless but might corrupt the font cache if processes are accessing this descriptor by incident.

Assigning to Vladimir and taking Mike into CC as he wished.
Comment 1 Anna Maresova 2006-03-09 17:00:08 UTC 
fixed