[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] two memleaks

Jan Knutar jknutar at nic.fi
Fri Oct 1 21:27:25 CEST 2004


On Friday 01 October 2004 15:02, Adam Tla/lka wrote:

> This has nothing to do with memory leaks.
> mlock() just prevents memory swapping, but only in case of root apps.
> Probably alsa-lib does not free() allocated memory in some places. ;-(

My system allows mlock() up to a certain limit, for cryptology applications
such as pgp and gpgp to lock memory and guarantee sensitive info is not
in swap in case of power failure.




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