Oh, certainly. It was only meant to show the leak and not as a model for
portable unit testing.
The leak only occurs on systems that have HAVE_MMAP defined, and is really
just a basic arithmetic counting oversight.
I can't imagine requiring a unit test for it, but it is your home turf. You
set the rules.



> This is a good program for _demonstrating_ the leak and seeing that
> it's gone.  It's not exactly an approach something you can build a
> unit test around, though -- at least, not in a portable way.  (Relying
> on lsof to see if the thing really got munmapped is a fine thing to do
> in an experiment, but not a great thing for the unit tests.)
>
> I think that right now, the best approach is probably to merge the
> obvious patch and move on.  Anybody feeling like writing that up as in
> "git format-patch" format (or as a branch I can merge somewhere), or
> should I stick it on my queue?
>
> yrs,
> --
> Nick
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