Re: Nsock does not pcap_close()

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

On 08/26/2010 10:23 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> I tested this with Nping and NSE. I see the leaked descriptor in Nping,
> but not NSE. nsi_delete, called by nsp_delete, already calls pcap_close.
> I think the issue is that Nping doesn't call nsp_delete. Valgrind
> reports that it leaks sockets even in --tcp-connect mode (one for every
> probe sent; i.e., -c 5 leaks 5 and -c 10 leaks 10).
>
> The only place I found where nsp_delete can be called is in
> ProbeMode::cleanup, and that doesn't appear to be called.
>
>   

Hi David,

Thanks for looking into this. I haven't checked Nping's code but you are
probably right, my mistake. I've added a TODO item for this in Nping's
todo list, and I'll take care of it as soon as I can.

Regards,

Luis MartinGarcia.

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