A nice system daemon...
Daemon monitors /proc/meminfo every 60 seconds...
committer: Markus Bröker <mbroeker@largo.homelinux.org>
/**
* test/demos/getpwnam_error.c
* Copyright (C) 2008 Markus Broeker
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pwd.h>
/**
==7531==
==7531== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 25 from 2)
==7531== malloc/free: in use at exit: 156 bytes in 11 blocks.
==7531== malloc/free: 66 allocs, 55 frees, 6,342 bytes allocated.
==7531== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
==7531== searching for pointers to 11 not-freed blocks.
==7531== checked 60,444 bytes.
==7531==
==7531== 156 (36 direct, 120 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 1 of 3
==7531== at 0x4022D6E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
==7531== by 0x412C7E0: (within /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==7531== by 0x412D0DB: __nss_database_lookup (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==7531== by 0x4596F5B: ???
==7531== by 0x4597CF6: ???
==7531== by 0x40D3BD1: getpwnam_r (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==7531== by 0x40D3646: getpwnam (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==7531== by 0x8048478: main (getpwnam_error.c:48)
==7531==
==7531== LEAK SUMMARY:
==7531== definitely lost: 36 bytes in 1 blocks.
==7531== indirectly lost: 120 bytes in 10 blocks.
==7531== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==7531== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==7531== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
*/
/*
* LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libnss_compat.so.2 valgrind --leak-check=full \
* ./getpwnam_error
* fixes it - Many thanks to telexicon for reporting this...
*
*/
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
struct passwd *pwd;
char *user;
if ((user = getenv ("USER")) == NULL) {
printf ("This system isn't supported yet\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
if ((pwd = getpwnam (user)) == NULL) {
printf ("I wasn't able to retrieve the neccessary data\n");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
printf ("Your full name: %s\n", pwd->pw_gecos);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}