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Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak on init/fini dependency list

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>
Cc: libc-hacker at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:59:52 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak on init/fini dependency list
References: <m37hieue06.fsf@hase.home><AANLkTinvyKDefL6vQn8TCTDvx3tArXf6CzDagSEgqGkD@mail.gmail.com>

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:03, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
>> valgrind reports a memory leak when a program dlopens a library already
>> loaded as a direct dependency
>
> Test case?!

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  void *handle = dlopen ("libc.so.6", RTLD_LAZY);
  if (!handle)
    {
      fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", dlerror ());
      return 1;
    }
  dlclose (handle);
}

Andreas.

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References:
- [PATCH] Fix memory leak on init/fini dependency list
  - From: Andreas Schwab

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