Re: memory leak in getprotobyname()

[Sven Neuhaus <sn@heise.de>]

--On 12/02/03 13:15:21 +0000 wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de wrote:

> > the following small C program leaks memory both on libc6 2.2.5-11.5
> > (woody)  and libc6 2.3.2-ds1-10 (debian unstable) (these are debian
> > linux package  version numbers).
>
> I cannot reproduce this with:
>
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.2.5-11.5
>
> After running for 5 minutes, the program still requires a constant VSZ
> of 1280k.  Are you using nscd perhaps?

NIS, but no nscd; kernel 2.4.20 SMP; gcc 2.95.4-14. Anything else that 
might cause it? I don't think we did any changes to /etc/procotols.
setprotoent(1) has no effect.

Now it gets weird: Upon receiving Wolframs email, I checked on another box 
with Debian stable (No NIS, kernel 2.4.23) and libc6 2.2.5-11.5 and it does 
not show the bug.

What else might cause this?

Thanks,
-Sven