[PATCH] Fix Gnulib glob.c resource leaks found by Coverity

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Mon Aug 26 17:08:00 GMT 2019


>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> On 8/23/19 7:37 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> FWIW, I agree with Gary's approach here.  We discussed this internally
>> and it's just too much work (and not a good use of Gary's time, IMHO) to
>> update our gnulib copy and fix this error.  Unfortunately, we will have
>> to address this at a later moment.

Pedro> Agreed as well.  We'd like to get rid of the leaks (I think it's the last
Pedro> issue in the whole Coverity-fixes series we've been pushing for a few
Pedro> months), and Gary already spent a good amount of time trying to upgrade
Pedro> gnulib, but it's revealing tricky.  At this point I think it's better to
Pedro> backport the leak fixes, and continue worrying about the gnulib upgrade as
Pedro> a separate project.

Thanks for the info & sorry I didn't reply sooner.
It's fine by me.

Tom



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