fd leak

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fd leak - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  file descriptor leak
  fd leak
  
     <programming> (Or "fd leak" /F D leek/) A kind of programming
     bug analogous to a core leak, in which a program fails to
     close file descriptors ("fd"s) after file operations are
     completed, and thus eventually runs out of them.
  
     See leak.
  
     (1994-11-30)