On Jan 9, 2015 9:05 PM, "Ralph Castain" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks > > I’ve trying to make a new library that uses libevent be valgrind clean. This is a threaded library, and so libevent is thread enabled. I create a new event base, and I call event_base_free before finalizing. > > However, I keep seeing reports like this: > > ==16029== 40 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 3 > ==16029== at 0x4C288FE: malloc (in /home/common/local/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) > ==16029== by 0x52A9EE1: evthread_posix_lock_alloc (evthread_pthread.c:46) > ==16029== by 0x5075572: event_global_setup_locks_ (event.c:2900) > ==16029== by 0x52AA08A: evthread_use_pthreads (evthread_pthread.c:185) > > This is with libevent 2.0.22-stable. Is this an expected situation? Or is there something I need to do beyond event_base_free to get a clean finalize? > > Thanks > Ralph
HI Ralph, In 2.1 you will have libevent_global_shutdown(). But unfortunately it is not ported to 2.0 AFAIK. > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body.
