Why can't they help fix the C library in question? Cancelation is really tricky to implement for the C library author. It's one of those concepts that, like fork, has implications that pervade everything. Please give your C library maintainers a little leeway if they get cancelation wrong. Especially if it's just a memory leak.

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RedShift1 3 days ago | parent [-]

I'm betting this code is so old and its behavior so ingrained everywhere else that nobody dares touching it.

	▲	jart 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		No it sounds like they just need to add a pthread_cleanup_push() call somewhere in the getaddrinfo() implementation. C libraries are not black magic. Nor are they holy code. We needn't fear them. It's the simplest part of the software stack.