Shibboleth Developers

[André Cruz <>]

AHA! Finally.

I found the bug... It's in the libc sunrpc implementation...
I reported it here: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5541

Valgrind gives good results with that patch applied.

Thanks for the help.

André

On 2008/01/03, at 19:57, Scott Cantor wrote:

> > The closest I get is:
> >
> > ==9218== 8,468,928 bytes in 1,044 blocks are definitely lost in loss
> > record 33 of 33
> > ==9218==    at 0x4A1BDEB: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
> > ==9218==    by 0x62A9DD1: xprt_register (in /lib/libc-2.3.6.so)
> > ==9218==    by 0x62AAD51: makefd_xprt (in /lib/libc-2.3.6.so)
> >
> > 1044 is the number of times I ran the client.
>
> That makes no sense, but then you know that already. I could  
> understand the
> library not auto-freeing some of the handles, but we know it's  
> freeing some
> of them or you wouldn't get the double-free warning.
>
> Perhaps there's really just a leak in the Linux version...
>
> We'd have to try on Solaris or Windows. I'll get to the Windows  
> test, I'm
> just deep into documentation work right now.
>
> -- Scott