Re: memory leak in getprotobyname()

[Sven Neuhaus]

Roman,

--On 12/02/03 09:59:46 -0500 Roman Fleysher wrote:

> I am not an expert on the subject, but it looks as if getprotobyname()
> allocates a structure and returns a pointer to it. Thus, each time you
> call it, new structure is allocated and new pointer is returned. You can
> check it with
>
> if(getprotobyname("tcp") != getprotobyname("tcp"))
>   printf("Each call allocates new structure
>           (assuming these were not NULL's)\n");

my getprotobyname() always returns the same pointer (even with different 
parameters - it modifies the structure of course), but it still grows
memory on some machines...

-Sven