mach_host_self() doesn't acquire new port name?!

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

I don't understand why mach_host_self() doesn't acquire a new port name and
leaks a port if not deallocated. In other words, I expected the following to
leak ports, but it doesn't:

main ()
{
  while (1)
    mach_host_self();   /* Returns 23 on each and every call. */
}

mach_task_self is cached in libc/mach/mach_init.c, I understand that.  We
don't do a similar caching for mach_host_self, right? I couldn't find one at
least. Following the code in gnumach/kern/ipc_host.c and
gnumach/ipc/{ipc_port.c (ipc_port_copyout_send),
ipc_object.c (ipc_object_copyout), ipc_entry.c (ipc_entry_get)}, it seems it
should acquire a new entry in the name space for the send right.

Where is my mistake?

Thanks,
Marcus

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