Check out the glibc docs and you will find what you need. And BTW this is not an appropriate list for your question. On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > Hello! > > I need a utility for the following problem: > 1.) Start and application server written in C/C++ > 2.) Let the server startup > 3.) Send a signal that we begin with the tests > 4.) Do some tests > 5.) Send a signal that the tests are over > 6.) Possibly shut down the server > > Now a list between 5 and 3 with the memory leaks would be fine. Are there > some libraries or gcc patches available which can detect the memory leaks. > > Thank you for the answer. > > Ciao, > Gerhard >