fd leak

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)