Re: [Libusb-devel] darwin.c leaks mach ports?

[Nathan H. <hj...@un...>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Pete Bentley wrote:

> I just left an app running under OS X for a while and noticed in
> 'top' that the number of mach ports in use was going up by about
> 25 every time the app rescanned the USB busses.
> 
> Looking at darwin.c, I see things like:-
>    IONotificationPortRef gNotifyPort;
>    [...]
>    gNotifyPort = IONotificationPortCreate(masterPort);
> 
> But no kind of 'close' or 'destroy' operation on gNotifyPort...
> 
> So I'm guessing that this is the general area the problem lies in,
> but I know very little about the Darwin IOKit APIs... Was kind of
> hoping this might inspire someone who does know to take a peek.
> 
> If not, I'll get around to it learning enough to look into
> it eventually.... But not any time soon, I'm afraid.

opps, I should get this patched up latter today.