[Winpcap-users] WinPcap 3.1 beta 4 memory leak? crashes?

[Gianluca Varenni]

Hi Tom.

I can confirm that there are some memory leaks affecting pcap_findalldevs 
(down deep in the packet.dll APIs), that have been already fixed on our 
source tree.

They will be available in the upcoming winpcap 3.1, which we plan to ship in 
few weeks.

Have a nice day
GV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Brown" <brown at esteem.com>
To: <winpcap-users at winpcap.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [Winpcap-users] WinPcap 3.1 beta 4 memory leak? crashes?


>I have a Delphi application using the WinPcap library. The application 
>polls a
> device on the ethernet port every second for status information. The
> application will poll for a device every half second if it can't find one
> right away. The crashes and memory leak seem to occur when the etherenet
> cable pulled. The application will slowly leak memory and sometimes 
> crashes
> after a few seconds or a few hours of operation.
>
> It appears the calls into the WinPcap library is the problem. When I take 
> out
> the calls into the WinPcap library the application runs without memory 
> leaks
> and does not crash. Of course, it isn't doing a whole lot at this point
> either. I searched google and the mailing list and did not find any memory
> leak issues with WinPcap 3.1 beta 4. Are there any issues with calling
> pcap_findalldevs() every half second? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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