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From: "Stephen Croall" <scroall@tibco.com>
To: "Giuliano Catrambone" <giuliano.catrambone@catrasoftware.it>
Cc: <pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Memory leak with detached threads
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D819E730A717F47BC9B256CCE55297001C410D3@NA-PA-VBE02.na.tibco.com> (raw)

Hi,

You aren't freeing the handle to the created thread :)

If you aren't interested in using the handle later on call
pthread_detach() to free the resources for the thread handle.  


Steve.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org 
> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of 
> Giuliano Catrambone
> Sent: 29 October 2006 19:43
> To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Memory leak with detached threads
> 
> Hi all,
>     I found a memory leak working with detached threads.
>     I just made a simple C code to demonstrate where I have 
> the memory leak.
> 
>     Running the attached C code I saw about 4KB of memory 
> leak every 20 
> iteration.
> 
>     I'm using pthreads-dll-2005-03-08.
> 
>     Could you tell me if I'm wronging something or if it is a bug?
>     Thanks in advance
>        giu
> 
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             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-29 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-29 18:54 Stephen Croall [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-29 19:02 Stephen Croall
2006-10-29 20:10 ` Giuliano Catrambone
2006-10-29 18:42 Giuliano Catrambone
2006-10-29 20:20 ` Tim Theisen
2006-10-30 22:03   ` Giuliano Catrambone

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