popa3d-users - Re: Possible memory leak?

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:50:18 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:35:18AM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:

Hi,

> I wonder Due adopting I have found that we are allocating memory for 
> virtual_spool in virtual.c/virtual_userpass function but can't find 
> where we free the allocation. This is memory leak bug or I misunderstand 
> something?

This memory is really not freed anywhere, but the spool path may be
needed for almost the entire lifetime of the process from that point
on anyway.  So this is not a bug, this is intentional.

-- 
/sd