[Click] minor Hub bug

[Bart Braem]

On 24 Jul 2009, at 20:53, Ian Rose wrote:

>  have a simple Hub element bug to report, but I'm not sure what the
> proper avenue for that is...
>
> Synposis: Hub will memory leak if used with only 1 input/output pair.
>
> Here is a configuration that will demonstrate the problem:
>
>> FromDump(<some big pcap file>, STOP true)
>>    -> cnt::Counter
>>    -> hub::Hub
>>    -> Print("hub output 0 (should never happen)")
>>    -> Discard;
>>
>> DriverManager(pause,
>>        read cnt.count,
>>        print "exitting in 10s",
>>        wait 10,
>>        print "goodbye");
>
> Once you see "exitting in 10s", go check the process' memory footprint
> and it should be quite large.  If you add a second input/output pair  
> to
> the Hub element in this configuration, the problem should disappear.


I can fully confirm this bug, valgrind also complains about memory  
leaks in this script.

Regards,
Bart
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Bart Braem
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