Re: dash regression against klibc

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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:50:10AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > @@ -251,8 +249,13 @@ inline
> >  STATIC char *
> >  getpwd()
> >  {
> > +#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
> >  	char *dir = getcwd(0, 0);
> >  	return dir ? dir : nullstr;
> > +#else
> > +	char buf[PATH_MAX];
> > +	return getcwd(buf, sizeof(buf)) ? savestr(buf) : nullstr;
> > +#endif
> >  }
> If this patch is correct then we leak memory in the glic extension case.
> According to man 3 getcwd the memory is allocated and thus should be freed.

If we leaked memory in the glibc case then we'd also leak in the
other one because savestr is dash's version of strdup.  But we
don't because the caller is responsible for freeing it.

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