[Dovecot] Warning: I/O leak

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Mar 10 15:28:00 EET 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:19 +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> For testing I start dovecot with dovecot -F, when I kill it via ^C 
> sometimes there are log entries like this:
> 
> dovecot: Mar 07 10:10:13 Warning: I/O leak: 0x804d890 (15)
> dovecot: Mar 07 10:10:13 Warning: I/O leak: 0x804d890 (26)
> 
> (gdb) x 0x804d890
> 0x804d890 <login_process_input>:        0x81e58955
> 
> I guess it's not important because Dovecot is interrupted.

Yea, those aren't really important anyway. Perhaps I shouldn't even log
them unless --enable-debug was used.. Anyway, I don't think I'll bother
fixing those leaks because that code is pretty ugly and I would probably
just end up breaking it. Dovecot v2.0 will have that code rewritten. :)

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