Hello Guy,
GH> ...unless you're running on a Win32 system, using WinPcap, in
GH> which case, as far as I know, when the process exits, the OS
GH> reclaims the address space, just as it does on UN*X, and you don't
GH> have a problem.
Agree. Try our tcpdump for Windows, and try to detect any memor
Michael Richardson wrote:
On a Unix (POSIX?) system, when the process exits, then the operating
system reclaims all resources. If you aren't running on such a system,
then yes, you probably have a problem.
...unless you're running on a Win32 system, using WinPcap, in which
case, as far as I know
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> "Manoj" == Manoj Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Manoj> libpcap does not have "exit()" and libc "exit()" cannot
Manoj> release the memory allocated in heap.Only "free()" can
Manoj> release memmory from heap. Memory allocated via "malloc" is
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:00:15PM +0530, Manoj Kumar wrote:
> libpcap does not have "exit()" and libc "exit()" cannot release the
> memory allocated in heap.Only "free()" can release memmory from heap.
> Memory allocated via "malloc" is accounted in heap section of process
> memory, and "pcap
libpcap does not have "exit()" and libc "exit()" cannot release the
memory allocated in heap.Only "free()" can release memmory from heap.
Memory allocated via "malloc" is accounted in heap section of process
memory, and "pcap_complie()" does "malloc".
Thus with "malloc" , "free" is necessary.
Pl
Manoj Kumar wrote:
I was learning how to go about writting sniffer using libpcap. For the
reason i was going through code of tcpdump version 3.8.3 code (which indeed
helped me alot), and i think there is some memory
leak in tcpdump when used with filters. As tcpdump uses
'pcap_compile()' , which e
HI,
I was learning how to go about writting sniffer using libpcap. For the
reason i was going through code of tcpdump version 3.8.3 code (which indeed
helped me alot), and i think there is some memory
leak in tcpdump when used with filters. As tcpdump uses
'pcap_compile()' , which eventually does
