glob must not call globfree

[Andreas Schwab]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
|> 
|> > 2002-02-07  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
|> > 
|> > 	* sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Don't call globfree on the passed glob
|> > 	structure.
|> 
|> I very much doubt this is correct.  I've never seen any requirement
|> like this.  If somebody intercepts the globfree calls for whatever
|> reasons and finds them handling memory which wasn't returned by a call
|> to glob this is the problem of that code.  Fortunately for whoever
|> makes this assumption one of the optimizations on the table for 2.3
|> will eliminate this.  If you send me a complete patch to use
|> INTDEF/INTUSE you get the effect you want.

I don't understand what you are trying to say.  Could you please clearify
what this issue has to do with INTDEF/INTUSE?

Andreas.

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