diff --git a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
index 6684e3a68..38fb67c3b 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/utils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-10-04  Bas van Gompel  <cygwin-patch.buzz@bavag.tmfweb.nl>
+
+	* cygcheck.cc (pretty_id): Close pipe.
+
 2004-09-23  Bas van Gompel  <cygwin-patch.buzz@bavag.tmfweb.nl>
 
 	* dump_setup.cc (dump_setup): Remove unneeded strlen when check_files
diff --git a/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc b/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc
index 924c3ce9b..f5008e983 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc
+++ b/winsup/utils/cygcheck.cc
@@ -791,6 +791,7 @@ pretty_id (const char *s, char *cygwin, size_t cyglen)
   static char empty[] = "";
   buf[0] = '\0';
   fgets (buf, sizeof (buf), f);
+  pclose (f);
   char *uid = strtok (buf, ")");
   if (uid)
     uid += strlen ("uid=");