On 3/30/06, Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > particular to pthreads, if you are using mutexes or somesuch on the > > stack, you will leak memory. (the lock on the stack is just a > > pointer, it gets allocated on first use). > > All mutexes are part of structures that are allocated via malloc(). > Would those leak memory too (even if pthread_mutex_destroy() is > called)? The application (it's the sendmail X address resolver) > uses a new mutex/condition variable for every request in the test > that triggers the leaks.
it should, unless the mutex is held, in which case it returns EBUSY. are you checking for that?
