[24480] in Kerberos
Re: Memory Leak problems with krb5_get_init_creds_password?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Aug 18 18:21:46 2005
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From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:20:48 -0400
To: brian.joh@comcast.net
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On Aug 18, 2005, at 17:49, brian.joh@comcast.net wrote:
> I know you weren't trying to write any production code or
> anything. I was just pointing out, that if the memory leak
> is moved to krb5_init_context(), then the problem is solved
> for realistic cases. And I was just trying to say it wouldn't
> fix the problem in your test program and that your leak
> test would still leak.
We've run into other cases where a krb5_context is needed but other
APIs make it difficult for one to be made available. So there's code
out there that allocates many short-lived krb5_context structures,
often without using them for actual network stuff.
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