Re: memory leak in getprotobyname()

[wmglo]

Hi,

> Now it gets weird: Upon receiving Wolframs email, I checked on another box 
> with Debian stable (No NIS, kernel 2.4.23) and libc6 2.2.5-11.5 and it does 
> not show the bug.

I think I've tracked this down, it happens with libnss-db, which in
turn relies on libdb3, where there appears to be a leak in the
__db_upgrade function.  "real_name" isn't freed in case of opening
error.  I'll submit a patch for db3 soonish.

Nothing to do with glibc though.

Regards,
Wolfram.