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Re: Memory leak when using OpenSSL

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:56:21 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Joerg Mueller-Tolk wrote:

> >The CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data() function was not present in OpenSSL
> >0.9.6b, so I had to tweak the configure script a bit to check for this
> >function before it can be safely called in the lib/ssluse.c source code.

> I am still using OpenSSL 0.9.6b
> Do you think I will have the leak as well?

I don't know, as I haven't read up on any details on what kind of data this
function actually frees.

However, this is a very minor leak. This new call is only made in the
curl_global_cleanup() call so it shouldn't lead to any excessive memory usage.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-08-20