what the kernel does if the FD is not closed?

[rheosiva]

please help me to understand regarding file descriptor leaks..
How to detect the file descriptor leak..

I tried with LSOF command. it shows list of opened files..
But i could nt able to identify whether LSOF list the Leaked File descriptors also..

I want to know what the kernel does when it detects file descriptor leaks...


Please help in this regards

[tebokkel]

FD's are closed when the owning process exits.

If you can lsof them, you know to which process they belong. Could you post a part of the lsof output with some entries you think are the problem?

Paul