python-2.4.2 support for mmap leaks file descriptors. invoke mmap.mmap enough times and you run out of file descriptors. it turns out this has been fixed upstream. I am attaching the corresponding patch.
Created attachment 76771 [details, diff] patch for python's mmap fd leak
that patch is already in python svn. so i suppose we should include it in python 2.4.2 if we do a rev bump
Fixed in 2.4.2-r1.