[vdr] epgsearch plugin memory leak

[Tobi]

On 21.08.2011 10:26, Christian Wieninger wrote:

> But unfortunately valgrind does not give me the information where the leak
> is caused. Maybe the reason for this is that a search timer update runs in
> a separate thread or because plugins are dynamically loaded shared libraries?
> Has anybody an idea how to use valgrind in this case?

http://www.e-tobi.net/blog/2006/04/30/speicherlecks-im-vdr-finden

You must keep the plugins loaded, otherwise you loose their symbol
information.

Here's what I have in the Debian package to support this:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/82_valgrind.dpatch

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr.git;a=blob;f=debian/valgrind.supp

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-vdr-dvb/vdr.git;a=blob;f=debian/vdrleaktest

Tobias