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From: Michael Zwick <zwickmich at web.de>
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Subject: Question to libsensors, due to a memory leak in a program.
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Hello Frodo Looijaard,
I am a german student and currently writing a small graphical frontend for=
lm=5Fsensors.
Everything works as I wish, but I encountered a small memory leak that has=
to do with the=20
"sensors=5Fget=5Flabel"-function of libsensors.
I asked in several diskussion boards in the net, but nobody could help me.=
(If I ask the wrong person, or if you don't find the time to help/answer, =
I would be pleased if you could tell me=20
who I could ask).
One function, I wrote, uses the following commands:
int i=3D0, nr1=3D0, nr2=3D0;
const sensors=5Fchip=5Fname * sensors=5Fchip;
const sensors=5Ffeature=5Fdata * sensor=5Fdata;
sensors=5Fchip =3D sensors=5Fget=5Fdetected=5Fchips( &i))
sensor=5Fdata =3D sensors=5Fget=5Fall=5Ffeatures( *sensors=5Fchip, &nr1, &nr2))
char * label;
sensors=5Fget=5Flabel ( *sensors=5Fchip, sensor=5Fdata->number, &label);
The last of the seven lines is called periodically ( eg. all 3 seconds).
This causes a leak of 4 bytes about every 10 seconds (more or less).
Four byte ist not much, but unacceptable.
I am sure that the sensors=5Fget=5Flabel-command is "guilty", because if I com=
ment this line ( using //) I can run=20
my program for hours without "loosing" this four bytes periodically.
So I added the following line as adviced in your sensors.h (quote: "*resul=
t is newly allocated (free it=20
yourself)").
free( label);
But this did not change anything. The memory leak did not vanish.
I hope this is enough information so that you (or someone else) can help m=
e.=20
How can I get rid of this memory leak=3F
Yours sincerely,
Michael Zwick
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