From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 7 00:52:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20159 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20115 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03441; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:51:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd003395; Fri Aug 7 00:51:11 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA23867; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 00:51:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808070751.AAA23867@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 07:51:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, dg@root.com In-Reply-To: <199808070332.XAA17093@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Aug 6, 98 11:32:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > OK, just to prove I'm not lazy... try this. > > Now having gone to that effort, you can just add it to your program > that needs it, and we don't have to bear the kluge in the C library. > > I believe that any program which suffers serious harm from the memory > leak probably needs to use a different environment-access model. Isn't a C library that leaks in its standard function implemetnations already kludged? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message