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Fix! (was: Memory leak in cluster NFS)

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Bjoern Rabenstein rabe at chemie.fu-berlin.de
Thu Dec 7 08:37:48 PST 2000


Voila!
I have already found the memory leak in the code, and here is the fix (it
was actually no so difficult...):

--- nfsd.c.orig Thu Dec  7 17:06:58 2000
+++ nfsd.c      Thu Dec  7 17:07:41 2000
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@
              memcpy( argp,  &test_argp,  sizeof( test_argp ));
              return status;
            }
-
+         free (test_argp.name);
        }
     }

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:

> At least in the short term, ClusterNFS needs a new maintainter.  Anyone care
> to volonteer?

My time is also very short at the moment. (I also just finished my PhD,
and the Beowulf stuff here is one of the last thing I will do at my old
department.) So unfortunately I am not able to volunteer. 
Perhaps you could at least introduce my patch into the distribution.

Have fun!
-- 
Bjoern Rabenstein * PhD student * Freie Universitaet Berlin * Fachbereich
Biologie/Chemie/Pharmazie * Inst. f. Chemie * Takustr. 6 * D-14195 Berlin
[email] rabe at chemie.fu-berlin.de                 [phone] +49-30-838-53484
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