[pdftex] Re: filedescriptor leak in pdftex 14h

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Otfried Cheong wrote:

 |
 |  > Is it realy necessary to keep descriptors to all included images
 |  > open, or is it a filedescriptor leak ?
 |
 | What kind of images are these, and how are you including them?
 |
 | Note that \pdfximage opens the image file and indeed leaves a file
 | descriptor open.  Once you call \pdfrefximage for the first time, the
 | image is actually embedded, and then the image file is closed.
 |
 | File descriptors for embedded PDF files with more than one page are
 | never closed.
 |
 | So if \pdfximage is called more than once on the same image, you have
 | a filedescriptor leak.

I use the graphicx package to include image jpeg images with
\includegraphics ... I do actually use every image twice in the
document ...

cheers
tobi

 | Otfried
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