memory leak while calling lp_servicename in infinite loop

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Mar 25 09:31:06 GMT 2002


On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Sunil Kumar wrote:

> Hi,
>     I think there is a memory leak in samba code as while
> lp_servicename in an infinite loop,Memory consumed by smbd process
> increases every times it iterates thru the loop.
>  
>   i.e
> int i;
>   while(1)   {
>          lp_servicename(i);++i
>     }

We release this is a main loop IIRC.  It's not leaked really.
We know exactly where it is.  It's just not being freed right 
here.  It is freed elsewhere.






cheers, jerry
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