On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:43:57 -0600, Modulok <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just not that bright, but I have a question regarding the following: > > man 3 getenv > <snip> > "Successive calls to setenv() or putenv() assigning a differently sized > value to the same name will result in a memory leak. The FreeBSD seman- > tics for these functions (namely, that the contents of value are copied > and that old values remain accessible indefinitely) make this bug > unavoidable. Future versions may eliminate one or both of these semantic > guarantees in order to fix the bug." > </snip> > > This is a memory leak within the process which calls sentenv() or > putenv(), not a memory leak in the kernel, right?
Yes, it's a userland leak. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
