Is saslauthd still leaking memory?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Sun Oct 15 02:53:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > MECHANISMS="pam"
> 
> Thanks for the quick feedback.  Does anyone on the list have any ideas
> on this?

Certain pam modules leaks memory like a broken pipe.  This is not something
that can be fixed by anything else, so forking saslauthd is nothing but a
workaround for that.

Valgrind can tell you a *lot* more about this :-)

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  Henrique Holschuh



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