On Thursday 27 of August 2009 12:07:07 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> ==2671== LEAK SUMMARY:
> ==2671== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==2671== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
> ==2671== still reachable: 864 bytes in 12 blocks.
> ==2671== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.

It's not definitely lost, but only reachable on application's exit. You can
see from the backtrace that the memory is allocated in the system libraries,
not in libcurl. I don't think it's a bug even there if the memory is not
growing during application's life time. And these functions should be called
only once.

For example on Fedora 11 libcurl uses NSS for SSL. Once you call PR_Socket()
you have possible lost 48B. But if you call PR_Socket() in the loop, it
doesn't grow.

Kamil
Received on 2009-08-27