[Linux-HA] File descriptors in heartbeat V1

Horms horms at verge.net.au
Wed Oct 26 22:05:29 MDT 2005


On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:38:41AM +0100, Simon Rowe wrote:
> I notice that all heartbeat processes have all heartbeat media fds open, e.g. 
> the serial processes have the ethernet fds open. This is less than ideal in 
> terms of resource usage and security.
> 
> Is this an oversight or a limitation of the V1 architecture?

IMHO, it sonly a limitation of knowing which fd's can safely 
be closed without inpacting on communication, including logs.
Shouldn't be thhat hard to resolve.

-- 
Horms



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