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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Elf and Dwarf from DwflModule life times?
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> I just figured out that "fildes" is copied (not duped) when elf_clone is 
> called; we'll need to be careful there as well.

I can't imagine why you would ever use elf_clone.  Anyway, yes, libelf does
nothing special to manage file descriptors.

libdwfl manages the file descriptors.