* my_getid was leaking file descriptors, causing 'ls -l' on long

    directories to fail
 -Erik

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 59895a07c..7c21c6cd2 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 	    integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
 	* kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals
 	* Began to add tail, butit doesn't work yet.
+	* my_getid was leaking file descriptors, causing 'ls -l' on long
+	    directories to fail
 
 	-Erik Andrsen
 
diff --git a/utility.c b/utility.c
index 1f0e381e3..469275f2d 100644
--- a/utility.c
+++ b/utility.c
@@ -645,11 +645,14 @@ my_getid(const char *filename, char *name, uid_t id)
 			continue;
 
 		if (name) {
-		    if (0 == strcmp(rname, name))
+		    if (0 == strcmp(rname, name)) {
+			fclose( file);
 			return( rid);
+		    }
                 }
 		if ( id != -1 && id == rid ) {
 		    strncpy(name, rname, 8);
+		    fclose( file);
 		    return( TRUE);
 		}
 	}