Re: [PATCH] Stop docproc segfaulting when SRCTREE isn't set.

From: Ahmed S. Darwish
Date: Tue Oct 09 2007 - 09:03:40 EST


Hi Rob,

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:25:18AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
[...]
> FILE * infile;
> +
> + srctree = getenv("SRCTREE");
> + if (!srctree) srctree = getcwd(NULL,0);
> if (argc != 3) {
> usage();
> exit(1);

$ man getcwd

char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size);

As an extension to the POSIX.1 standard, Linux (libc4, libc5, glibc) getcwd()
allocates the buffer dynamically using malloc() if buf is NULL on call.

Shouldn't "srctree" be free()ed in case getenv("SRCTREE") failed ?

Regards,

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