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Memory leak when application is terminated while a keep-alive connection is still open

Open sternenseemann opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

When dealing with HTTP keep-alive connections in practice, terminating a httpserver.h based application via a SIGTERM handler similar to the one in test/main.c will leak memory as free(http_server) isn't enough to get rid of whatever is allocated per connection.

To reproduce:

valgrind ./http-server &
pid=$!
firefox http://localhost:8080/ # or any other typical browser
kill $pid

I haven't looked into it yet, it'd probably be possible to provide a cleanup function to free everything related to keep-alive connections as well?

sternenseemann avatar Sep 13 '20 12:09 sternenseemann