memory leak in 2.4.17

[M. Peck Dickens]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 23:48, you wrote to me:
> --- Shawn Tayler <stayler at gbis.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Anyone have memory leakage or growth problems with 2.4.17?  I applied
> > the pre-emptive patch too mine and I
> > seem to be having a strange memory use growth.  I was wondering if
> > anyone with a stock 2.4.17 has seen anything
> > similar.


sane_exit() does not release memory allocated by
sane_get_devices() when used with the following 
backends:
 
      - abaton
      - agfafocus
      - apple
      - as6e
      - avision
      - bh
      - canon
      - coolscan
      - dmc
      - m3096
      - microtek
      - qcam
      - ricoh
      - s9036
      - sharp
      - sp15c
      - tamarack

It really pisses me off that the developers of sane would 
rather add new features than fix this major bug.

Best


Peck