Leak in MLDBM under Linux

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#883 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT883$

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From [email protected]

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The following code leaks fairly severely on every Linux system I've tried it
on, running various releases of 5.004 and 5.005. It does not appear to leak
under Solaris x86 or sparc. I have not been ableto try other operating
systems. Gurusamy Sarathy asked me to send this using perlbug, since it
looks to be a problem with perl internals.

The offending code​:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use MLDBM qw(DB_File);
use Fcntl;
use strict;

my %in;

tie %in, 'MLDBM', 'testmldbm', O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0640 || die $1;
$in{'1'} = 'a' x 4082; # On the systems that I tested, this stops leaking if
  # changed to 4081. This number _may_ be system
  # dependant.
untie %in;

while(1) {
  tie %in, 'MLDBM', 'testmldbm', O_RDONLY, 0640 || die $1;
  my $mem = $in{'1'};
  untie %in;
}

Perl Info

This perlbug was built using Perl 5.00503 - Mon Jun 14 09:34:26 PDT 1999
It is being executed now by  Perl 5.00503 - Mon Jun 14 22:53:23 PDT 1999.

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by modus at Mon Jun 14 22:53:23 PDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux hq 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2 09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -DDEBUGGING'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/modus
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/modus/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

does not leak when tested anymore on similar systems. (probably fixed in MLDBM)
clsoed

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From The RT System itself

does not leak when tested anymore on similar systems. (probably fixed in MLDBM)
clsoed