Hi Alexey, Good patch, good explanation. Applied. Thanks! Cheers, Michael On 04/02/2014 10:30 AM, Alexey Samsonov wrote: >>From 4a09a0da31e9b98167e974e05f13f57b53dd41c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alexey Samsonov <samsonov@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 12:26:44 +0400 > Subject: [PATCH] getline.3: Emphasize that user code should free the allocated > buffer even if getline() failed. > > --- > man3/getline.3 | 7 +++++-- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/getline.3 b/man3/getline.3 > index 806e455..9f403a0 100644 > --- a/man3/getline.3 > +++ b/man3/getline.3 > @@ -69,8 +69,11 @@ is set to NULL and > .I *n > is set 0 before the call, then > .BR getline () > -will allocate a buffer for storing the line, > -which should be freed by the user program. > +will allocate a buffer for storing the line. > +This buffer should be freed by the user program > +even if > +.BR getline () > +failed. > > Alternatively, before calling > .BR getline (), > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
