Bug 10942

Summary: catopen leaking memory
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: rh
Component: gccAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 6.0CC: matt.domencic
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Description rh 2000-04-20 13:56:10 UTC 
It appears that the catopen function is leaking memory.
If you place a catopen call inside of a while(1) memory
is leaked.  Checked this using memprof.
Comment 1 Brock Organ 2000-05-09 17:41:59 UTC 
Verified this behavior in 6.0; this does not fail in 6.2 (latest release)...

attached is the sample code to reproduce this (thanks to the folks who provided
it ...!):

g++  -g -Wall -c leak.cpp
g++  -o leak leak.o

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <nl_types.h>

void leak()
{
        char      domainpath[1024];// Domain of resource
        nl_catd catfd;                  // File Descriptor for Catalogue

	memset(domainpath,0,1024);
	catfd=0;

	strcpy(domainpath,"ivbas15.mo");
	if ((catfd=catopen ((char *)domainpath, 0)) > 0) {
                int ii=catclose (catfd);
	}
}

// main program
int main()
{

while(1)
  {
	leak();
    sleep(1);
  }


}
Comment 2 matt.domencic 2000-05-09 17:58:59 UTC 
Could you do an rpm -qa > rpmlist on the system that
does not leak for catopen and e-mail it to me.

Thanks,
Matt Domencic
Merant