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Re: memory leak in res_nsend()
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:22:37PM +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote:
> On 24.10.2005 22:08, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:04:04PM +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote:
> >>__libc_thread_freeres(void) frees global _res, while I need to free
> >>resources associated with my local __res_state struct.
> >>I honestly do not understand how can valgrind help me with that calling
> >>__libc_thread_freeres().
> >
> >By calling it in the context of any thread that hasn't exited, to free
> >that thread's resources?
>
> Ok, stop.
> So you want to tell me that the leak is caused by valgrind itself and
> doesn't exist without it, right ?
No. It's not a leak. It will be cleaned up when the program exits.
Glibc knows this. It won't bother to free it, if there's no real leak.
Valgrind has a mechanism to handle this but it isn't adequate for you,
apparently.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC