[zeromq-dev] zeromq Windows handle leak?

Ian Barber ian.barber at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 17:05:36 CET 2012


Actually, I recall a thread previously around make_fdpair on windows -
might be worth a quick search of the archives in case this has been
subsequently addressed.
On 25 Dec 2012 15:44, "KIU Shueng Chuan" <nixchuan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eh? Doesn't the pirate pattern do a close and open?
>
> I was referring to a win32 HANDLE leak. I seem to have located the leak.
> zmq::signaler_t::make_fdpair() opens an Event but fails to CloseHandle it.
> Adding the CloseHandle, the handle count for the sample program stays
> constant in task manager.
> On Dec 25, 2012 11:20 PM, "Pieter Hintjens" <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
>
>> Opening and closing sockets repeatedly is a very bad idea. Since
>> sockets are in fact closed asynchronously and only finally when you
>> call zmq_ctx_destroy, this code will indeed leak memory.
>>
>> -Pieter
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:55 AM, KIU Shueng Chuan <nixchuan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The following snippet seems to be leaking 1 handle per second, as viewed
>> > from task manager.
>> >
>> > OS: Windows XP SP3 32-bits
>> > Library: ZeroMQ v3.2.2
>> >
>> > -----------------------------
>> > #include <zmq.h>
>> > #include <zmq_utils.h>
>> >
>> > int main()
>> > {
>> > void *ctx = zmq_ctx_new();
>> > while (1) {
>> > void *zsock = zmq_socket(ctx, ZMQ_DEALER);
>> > zmq_close(zsock);
>> > zmq_sleep(1);
>> > }
>> > zmq_ctx_destroy(ctx);
>> > return 0;
>> > }
>> >
>> >
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