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Re: [milter-greylist] memory footprint problem in 1.5.3->1.6rc1 update

2004-12-01 by manu@netbsd.org

Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb@...> wrote:

> Ok, I found the problem. Milter-greylist is innocent. It's a Solaris 
> bug. Solaris 8 needs the 108827-40 patch (which has since then been 
> obsoleted by 108993-39). 

Well done!

> There seem to be severe leaks in getaddrinfo() 
> and friends in non-patched libpthread/libsocket/libnsl.

In an ideal world, we could check for that bug and avoid using
getaddrinfo() if it is broken. Are you able to write a test? 

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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