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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1309:
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@Filipe

After reading further I think you've probably got the best approach. The only alternative I've contemplated would be to have a monitor process that wakes up every so often and checks that its sig is still valid which I don't think is as clean as this version.

Although, I would like to see this patch as at least two if not more commits. Specifically, at least one for the new ddoc event broadcasting and then one for the indexer/view stuff.
                
> File descriptor leaks on design document update and view cleanup
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1309
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1309
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Filipe Manana
>            Assignee: Filipe Manana
>         Attachments: couchdb-1309_12x.patch, couchdb-1309_trunk.patch
>
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> If we add a design document with views defined in it, open the corresponding view group (by querying one of its views for e.g.), then update the design document in such a way that the view signature changes (changing a view's map function code for e.g), the old view group remains open forever (unless a server restart happens) and keeps it's view file reference counter active forever.
> If a view cleanup request comes, the old view file is not deleted since the reference counter is not dropped by the old view group, keeping the file descriptor in use forever.
> This leakage is different from what is reported in COUCHDB-1129 but it's somehow related.
> The attached patch, simply shutdowns a view group when the design document is updated and the new view signature changes, releasing the old view file descriptor (as soon as no more clients are using the old view).

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