[Mono-dev] WAPI Handle Leaks

[Brian Crowell]

Patrick Earl wrote:
> I suspect there are problems with threads created internally (for 
> example, as part of the thread pool) that aren't cleaned up by the 
> garbage collector.  I would be happy to help test, but solving the 
> problem seems that it would require fairly in depth knowledge of the io 
> layer, garbage collection, wapi handle usage, and such.

I think it's more likely that the garbage collector cleans it up, but a race 
condition on that thread leaves the handle open. And I, like you, haven't 
exactly the Linux debugging skills to track this down.

Anywho, here's the latest bug number for reference:

   http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79286

--Brian