Re: [Boost-users] message_queue memory leak in Boost::test

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] message_queue memory leak in Boost::test
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-05 14:52:12

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boost-users_at_[hidden] spake the secret code
<loom.20130404T000840-698_at_[hidden]> thusly:

>I have this simple test case:
>
>BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(TestLogin)
>{
>    message_queue inQueue(open_or_create, "InQueue", 100, 100);
>    remove("InQueue");
>}
>
>And Boost::test reports a memory leak:
>
>Running 1 test case...
>
>*** No errors detected
>Detected memory leaks!
>Dumping objects ->
>{668} normal block at 0x0039DE78, 57 bytes long.
> Data: <struct boost::in> 73 74 72 75 63 74 20 62 6F 6F 73 74 3A 3A 69 6E
>{667} normal block at 0x0039DE40, 8 bytes long.
> Data: <x 9     > 78 DE 39 00 00 00 00 00
>Object dump complete.
>Press any key to continue . . .
>
>If I comment out the two lines of code there is no memory leak.
>
>Is this something I have to live with? In my real code the message_queue is 
>alive the whole time the program is running.

Have you tried reporting the leak to the owner of the interprocess
library?
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