I demand that Stefan Huelswitt may or may not have written... [snip] > The malloc memory is free'd by VDR, but there is still some memory leaked. > I think it's internally lost. This can be proven with my patch. If the %a[ > is omitted, there is no leak. And if you free(description) before the sscanf()? -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG keys) Anchovies? You've got the wrong man! I spell my name DANGER! <click>