Memory Leak from passing Vec of Pathbufs over a channel?

[jbe]

@gmarler

[…] - the ultimate issue turns out to be programming logic, not a memory leak at all.

I think whether or not such kind of cases (I haven't looked at your particular case) can be considered "memory leaks" is at least arguable, in my opinion.

From another thread:

@jbe

[…], as I understand the term "memory leak" right, not all leaks require memory to be unreachable (Wikipedia).

@jbe

My point is: when we speak of memory leaks, we almost always think on leaks where memory becomes unreachable. But there is also the more general case of leaks by logic errors. These can make you lose megabytes or gigabytes of memory as well.

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Another example for a non-explicit memory leak, which neither involves Rc or Arc: […] (Playground)

If you push two values into result_tx but only read one value from result_rx, and if you repeat this over a long time, you will leak memory. This is similar to my original example of growing a String further and further, except it's an mpsc queue which grows here.