On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Denis Fondras wrote: > > please, if you want to help, be MUCH more precise (and get clear on > > what side of the fork() we are). With a report like that I had to go > > through large parts of code to ecventually maybe spot what you are > > referring to. That doesn't help, that just costs time. I appreciate > > the effort, but please make it easier to consume for us :) > > > > Sorry for the imprecise question. > > I am reading src/usr.sbin/bgpd/rde.c (rev 1.328). > At line 234 (so in the child process), there is : > > if ((conf = calloc(1, sizeof(struct bgpd_config))) == NULL) > > I can't find any free(conf) later in the code. From _exit(2) I don't > understand it can free allocated memory on itself. How is it handled ? >
This memory does not need to be freed during runtime. Sure we could free(conf) just before calling _exit() but there is not much point doing so. -- :wq Claudio
