Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/10/11:37:44
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:36:04AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Noel Gordon wrote:
>
> > Anyone else confirm that the following program compiled under
> > gcc 3.2, cygwin 1.3.17-1, on Win2k leaks memory?
Confirmed. I found the missing free().
> >From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/gethostbyaddr.html :
>
> The gethostbyaddr() and gethostbyname() functions *may* return
> pointers to static data, which may be overwritten by subsequent
> calls to any of these functions.
>
> The "may" above (emphasis is mine) means that the implementation is free
> to malloc a data structure and require the user to free it. Since you
> don't free the returned data structure in your program, it's quite
> possible that there's a leak. Also, Cygwin uses the gethostbyname from
> wsock32.dll, which may have different implementations on different
> systems. Thus, your best bet is to look up gethostbyname on MSDN for
> implementation details.
Ignore MSDN. It's using an internal per-thread buffer which collides with
the fork/exec mechanism of Cygwin so Cygwin duplicates the buffer to
another Cygwin-thread specific allocated buffer. The deallocation of
the buffer is Cygwin internal so hands off please.
Thanks for the report, I've checked in a patch,
Corinna
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