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Re: Problem reusing ftp connections

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:20:24 +0100 (MET)

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Cadime wrote:

> I was trying to reuse connections and I got a strange behaviour.
>
> I do the following sequence of commands several times:
> a) list remote files of a known extension
> b) reuse connection to get each file individually.
> c) close connection ( curl_easy_cleanup )
>
> After a while I am reaching the maximum number of open sockets for my
> process and I am not able to open a new one.
>
> If I do not reuse the connections, everything is OK.

This certainly sounds as if there is a file handle leak.

Please follow the few simple steps outlined in the README.memoryleak document
(online here: http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/lib/README.memoryleak) in order
to verify/track this down.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-12-11