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+#
+# This is a warning-suppression file for valgrind supplied by libproc
+# to be used with the option: --suppressions=<path-for>/libproc.supp.
+#
+# Memory leak warnings will only be encountered when a multi-threaded
+# program has called the 'procps_pids' interface. That's because this
+# library employs heap based memory in a thread safe manner. However,
+# such memory will not be freed until the address space is reclaimed.
+#
+# When a sibling thread using this 'procps_pids' API ends, or if some
+# other thread in that address space calls 'pthread_cancel()' on such
+# a thread, valgrind will warn that some memory is 'definitely lost'.
+#
+# The majority of warnings depend on the 'pids_item' enumerators that
+# have been specified using 'procps_pids_new' or 'procps_pids_reset'.
+#
+# Single-threaded applications will not experience any such warnings.
+#
+
+## always present 'definitely lost' warnings
+# 2 blocks of 128k each
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_startup
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:openproc
+}
+
+## for most of the 'definitely lost' warnings
+# up to 4 blocks ranging from 1024 to 2048 bytes each
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_input
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:file2str
+}
+
+## additional potential 'definitely lost' warnings
+# 48 bytes for each user
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_users
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:pwcache_get_user
+}
+# 48 bytes for each group
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_groups
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:pwcache_get_group
+}
+# 40 bytes for each tty
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_terminals
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:dev_to_tty
+}
+
+## remaining potential 'definitely lost' warnings
+# 16 bytes + sizeof name for each lxc container
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_lxc
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ fun:lxc_containers
+}
+
+## in case an installed library has been stripped,
+## this will embrace all of the above warning categories
+{
+ HEAP_BASED_TLS_library
+ Memcheck:Leak
+ ...
+ obj:/usr/*lib*/libproc*
+ obj:/usr/local/*lib*/libproc*
+}