glob must not call globfree
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk@suse.de
Mon Feb 11 00:02:00 GMT 2002
On Sun, Feb 10, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:
>
> > I think the problem is our globfree: If called, it only checks if
> > gl_pathv is not NULL. I think it should also check, that gl_pathc
> > is not zero and set it to zero after freeing gl_pathv. This fixes
> > all of our current problems with this.
>
> gl_pathc != 0 for a globfree call is a requirement on the user. The
> implementation shouldn't check it.
>
> If anything has to be changed (I'm still not 100% sure but am willing
> to concede it) the glob() function must make sure that gl_pathc is set
> to zero if it called globfree(). I've checked in a patch for that.
> Give it a try with your tests
If globfree is not modified it cannot work: We can call globfree with
a correct struct but it will seg.fault, since it inores gl_pathc.
> and please consider adding the tests to the test suite.
I will try to extract a small test case from it.
Thorsten
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