exhaust_fd

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import itertools
from optparse import OptionParser

parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-l", "--limit", dest="fds", type="int", default=0,
                  help="How many file descriptors to leave.", metavar="FDS")
parser.add_option("-c", "--command", dest="cmd", type="string", default="/bin/bash",
                  help="Command to run.")

(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

handles = []

try:
  while True:
    handles.append(open('/dev/null', 'r'))
except IOError:
  print "File descriptors exhausted."
  pass

print "Freeing {0} file descriptors.".format(options.fds)

for f in itertools.islice(handles, 0, options.fds):
  f.close()

print "Starting {0}.".format(options.cmd)
os.system('/bin/bash')

print "Closing remaining file descriptors."

for f in handles:
  f.close()