--- a/mercurial/posix.py	Mon Oct 13 11:46:04 2014 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/posix.py	Wed Oct 15 15:13:43 2014 -0400
@@ -156,9 +156,12 @@
     name = tempfile.mktemp(dir=path, prefix='hg-checklink-')
     try:
         fd = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=path, prefix='hg-checklink-')
-        os.symlink(os.path.basename(fd.name), name)
-        os.unlink(name)
-        return True
+        try:
+            os.symlink(os.path.basename(fd.name), name)
+            os.unlink(name)
+            return True
+        finally:
+            fd.close()
     except AttributeError:
         return False
     except OSError, inst: