Subject: Re: bug#8755: "ls -l" leaks memory
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Ola Olsson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:15:30 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 29/05/11 01:28, Ola Olsson wrote:
>  <[email-masked]>According to valgrind, ls -l leaks memory. I have
> included the "coreutils version", "uname -a" information, Expected output
> from valgrind ("ls") and non-expected output ("ls -l").

ls does leak but inconsequentially.
Explicitly freeing the memory would only waste
time managing the heap just before we'd exit anyway.

cheers,
Pádraig.