Re: [boost] [thread] Memory leak in Boost.Thread?

Hello,

a Fedora user has reported a potential memory leak in Boost.Thread (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627875 for details), detected with Valgrind in (at least) versions 1.41.0 and 1.44.0.

Is that really a memory leak?

most likely not. the memory in question is freed by a deleter of pthread_key_create, which means when the (main) thread is exited. valgrind apparently does the leak checking before that. here's the code in question: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/thread/src/pthread/once.cpp