Re: ltdl bugs

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Peter O'Gorman wrote:
| Jeff Squyres wrote:
| | I think that I have found 2 bugs in libltdl (1.5.14).  These are
| | repeatable on Linux 2.4 machines:
| |
| | 1. If you lt_dlopen(NULL) and then lt_dlclose() the handle that was
| | returned, a memory leak ensues.  This is easily reproducible by writing
| | a short program:
| |
| | -----
| | #include <ltdl.h>
| |
| | int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
| |     lt_dlhandle handle;
| |
| |     lt_dlinit();
| |     handle = lt_dlopen(NULL);
| |     lt_dlclose(handle);
| |     lt_dlexit();
| |     return 0;
| | }
|
| | I haven't fully audited what is happening, but I think that this might
| | be the correct solution...?
|
| I am not sure that this is a bug, if you check the return code from
| lt_dlclose(), you will notice that it fails.

Hate to reply to myself, but I would consider that the memory not being
cleaned up by lt_dlexit() to be a bug. Darn, thought I'd get away with the
'not a bug' response.

Peter
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