Re: libltdl leaks when unloading plugins depending on external lib

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > It is common for glibc to secretly allocate some memory for its own
> > use, and this is particularly true for multi-threaded programs.  Often
> > it has no way to safely release this memory.
>
> I tried with another dependency (libpci instead of libpthread), the
> leaks go away, so indeed the problem is likely outside of libltdl.

The important thing to test for is that if you load and  unload this 
module 1000 times, do you see 1000X as much "leak" or the same amount 
as when loading/unloading one time?

Bob
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