Re: Possible memory leaks in libnetutil

["Luis MartinGarcia." <luis.mgarc () gmail com>]

On 08/10/2010 01:06 AM, Brandon Enright wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:01:15 +0200 or thereabouts "Luis MartinGarcia."
> <luis.mgarc () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
>
> > Valgrind also showed possible memory leaks in libnetutil. I haven't
> > look at this in detail but I think there should be a way to avoid the
> > valgrind warnings like:
>
> [...]
>
> > The thing is that getinterfaces() caches the list of interfaces so
> > subsequent calls don't have to use dnet or do ioctl() calls again. I
> > guess getsysroutes() does something similar. However, it may be nice
> > to provide some helpers or modify the functions in some way so we can
> > free() any allocated memory and avoid the warnings.
>
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Luis MartinGarcia.
>
>
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> You didn't show the command you were running.  This certainly wouldn't
> be the first memory leak either but are you running Nmap with
> --release-memory?  About a year ago I was tracking down a few memory
> leaks that turned went away with the --release-memory option.
>
> Regards,

Hi Brandon,

Sorry, I forgot to mention it. I was running Nping, not nmap.

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.

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