popa3d-users - Re: Possible memory leak?

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 09:45:45 +0500
From: Boris Kovalenko <boris@...net.ru>
To:  popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Possible memory leak?

Solar Designer wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:25:40PM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
>  
>
>>May be I'm wrong but all memory allocated by xalloc functions should be 
>>freed before the process exit to prevent memory leak.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, you're wrong.
>
>It's pieces of the process' address space which are allocated by these
>functions (actual memory behind them is generally allocated on the
>first write operation, but this is implementation-specific).  When the
>
I remember this. Forgive for anxiety.

Boris