Re: Memoryleak in SSL.Connection

Andre Reitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cryptography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:07:24 +0800
Ng Pheng Siong <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:49:07PM +0200, Andre Reitz wrote:
> > here is my patch, which should work in any case:
> > (but not so efficient)
> 
> Is it easy to induce/observe the leak?
> 
> I think one possible cheap way to fix the cyclical references is to do this
> 
>     self._write_bio = None
>     self._write_nbio = None
>     self._read_bio = None
>     self._read_nbio = None
> 
> at a strategic spot, perhaps in close(). This gets rid of the mode test at
> every invocation of read/write/send/recv.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

not really a good idea.
this would work for myself,
but perheps if a thread exits with an exception
and doesnt call close... there would be the same problem....

Greetings Andre'


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