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Re: MinGW status for readline
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:15:07AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> No, you never free username. isolate_tilde_prefix allocates memory
>> whether you have the getpwent family available or not.
>
> It should be? user_entry = 0, so the other branch of the if is taken.
?
`username' is assigned before user_entry is. It really should be freed
outside the if-then block, now that I'm looking at it.
>> (I call endpwent() because its sole usual purpose is to close any open
>> file descriptors on the password database, whatever it is. getpwent
>> and getpwnam usually keep the database open.)
>
> Oh, huh. So much for useful man pages.
The BSD man pages, at least, say
The endpwent() function closes any open files.
Chet
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