Re: [boost] [thread] Memory leak in Boost.Thread?

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] Memory leak in Boost.Thread?
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-29 15:17:40

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On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Denis Arnaud wrote:
> 2010/8/27 Denis Arnaud <denis.arnaud_boost_at_[hidden]>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > a Fedora user has reported a potential memory leak in Boost.Thread (see
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627875 for details), detected
> > with Valgrind in (at least) versions 1.41.0 and 1.44.0.
>
> Apparently, as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627875#c7 ,
> it seems there is a bug in Boost Thread.
>
> As I'm not a specialist in that area, I prefer to hand it over to more
> savvy developers on the list. Do not hesitate to answer directly on
> Bugzilla.

As far as I can tell, the "fix" for this "bug" is to insure some per-thread 
memory is freed just before the entire program exits?  The only point to 
doing that would be to quiet valgrind.  Maybe the reason posix threads don't 
invoke their per-thread data destructors is that it is pointless?

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