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[Bug network/16001] calls to getaddrinfo() leak memory.


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16001

--- Comment #4 from Debabrata Banerjee <dbavatar at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Alexandre Oliva from comment #3)
> I see the testcase duplicates freeaddrinfo behavior, but I don't see how it
> shows there is (or was) any memory leak.  I couldn't locate the patch
> submission nor the better ideas about how to fix it to tell whether this
> should be reopened or left closed.  Pointers anyone?

Hi, If you create a large number of local interfaces, then you should be able
to reproduce it with the test case attached. i.e. Create 16,000 eth0:xxxxx
aliases and assign a new IPv4 address to each one.

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