On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:35:56AM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr> writes:
> > #include <string.h>
> >
> > int main() {
> >   char *msg;
> >
> >   while (1) {
> >     msg = strerror(1);
> >   }
> >
> >   return 0; }
> >
> > Did i missed something, or this is a real leak ?
> 
> I think this is a real leak and is related to NLS/i18n.
yes, it seems so.

The following code extracted from strerror_r() also produce the leak:

int main() {
  nl_catd catd;
  while (1) {
    catd = catopen("libc", NL_CAT_LOCALE);
    catclose(catd);
  }
  return 0;
}

The leak seems to be in lib/libc/citrus/* somewhere in
_citrus_lookup_simple() as if catopen.c is build without -DCITRUS (
which implies that citrus/*.h are not included and _lookup_alias() is
hardcoded), the leak doesn't occur. I doesn't have time to dig more by
now, sorry.

regards,

Arnaud