Re: Memory leak with timer

[Bob van Loosen <loosen at xs4all dot nl>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:08:52AM +0200, Bob van Loosen wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When using a timer I seem to be getting a memory leak.
> > It eats up about 8 kilobyte per second.
> >
> > Here's some example code:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <pthread.h>
> > #include <signal.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> >
> > void nothing(){}
> > void Die(char *error){perror(error); exit(1);}
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> >    struct itimerspec itimer;
> >    struct sigevent sigev;
> >    timer_t timer;
> >    int interval = 16000;
> >      itimer.it_interval.tv_sec = interval / 1000000;
> >    itimer.it_interval.tv_nsec = (interval % 1000000) * 1000;
> >    itimer.it_value.tv_sec = interval / 1000000;
> >    itimer.it_value.tv_nsec = (interval % 1000000) * 1000;
> >      sigev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD;
> >    sigev.sigev_notify_attributes = 0;
> >    sigev.sigev_notify_function = &nothing;
> >      if (timer_create (CLOCK_REALTIME, &sigev, &timer) < 0)
> >        Die("timer_create");
> >
> >    if (timer_settime(timer, 0, &itimer, NULL) < 0)
> >        Die("timer_settime");        while(1) sleep(1);
> > }
> >     
>
> This should be fixed in the next snapshot.  If you are looking for a
> workaround, specifically set the sigev_notify_attributes to
> PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED.
>
>
>   

Thanks, that fixed it.
Shouldn't PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED be default? That's what the 
opengroup.org site says.

Bob.

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