Roman, --On 12/02/03 09:59:46 -0500 Roman Fleysher wrote:
I am not an expert on the subject, but it looks as if getprotobyname()
allocates a structure and returns a pointer to it. Thus, each time you
call it, new structure is allocated and new pointer is returned. You can
check it with
if(getprotobyname("tcp") != getprotobyname("tcp"))
printf("Each call allocates new structure
(assuming these were not NULL's)\n");
my getprotobyname() always returns the same pointer (even with different parameters - it modifies the structure of course), but it still grows
memory on some machines... -Sven