The original poster in that thread was running 10.5.8. No one in the thread posted saying that they couldn't repro the port leak. The thread is quite recent, th

The original poster in that thread was running 10.5.8. No one in the thread posted saying that they couldn't repro the port leak. The thread is quite recent, the latest post being from earlier today. I think we have to assume that the port leak is still there in the most recent version (10.6.6). I do hope that the poster had misunderstood Avie Tevanian in his conversations with him. Tevanian was one of Apple's chief architects and was one of the big wheels responsible for NextStep's transformation to OS X. It would be kind of outrageous for an OS architect to believe that it's at all acceptable to allow user-mode processes to cause kernel resource leaks.