Mutex causing memory leaks

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Sep 2 16:21:38 CEST 2010


On Wed,  1 Sep 2010 17:26, randomproof at fastmail.us said:
> The main problem I see is that in the macros for
> GCRY_THREAD_OPTION_PTH_IMPL and GCRY_THREAD_OPTION_PTHREAD_IMPL malloc()
> is being called in gcry_pthread_mutex_init() but free() is not being
> called because gcry_pthread_mutex_destroy() is not called.

Well, the heap is part of the process and thus destroyed at the
process termination.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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