On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 15:17 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: > Thanks Tomas. > I was refering to this document which refers ro SOLARIS APIs . Just > wanted to clarify on linux. Thanks so much. > > > http://cc.in2p3.fr/doc/phpman.php?parameter=pam_getenv&mode=man Hmm, that's bad as it meens that's another thing we (Linux-PAM) differ from Solaris. It also means for you if you want to support both Linux-PAM and Solaris PAM you'll have to #ifdef the free() call appropriately. > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 11:55 +0530, Sudarshan Soma wrote: > >> Hi All, Iam using pam_getenv in my PAM application. Can anyone please > >> let me know should i free the memory pointed to const char in my > >> application or its take care by libpam. > >> > >> I am bit confused. As per Documentation, it says the application > >> should free it. Is that true. Please advice. > >> > >> buf = pam_getenv(pamh,"PRIMARY"); > >> if(buf != NULL && buf[0] != '\0' ) { > >> if (strcmp(buf, "TRUE") == 0) { > >> printf("success\n "); > >> } > >> } > >> > >> if (buf) { > >> //free(buf); // is this reqd??? > >> } > > > > No, it must not be be freed, the pointer is pointing to memory managed > > by the pam library itself and freed on pam_end() call. > > -- > > Tomas Mraz > > No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. > > Turkish proverb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list mailing list > > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pam-list mailing list > Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list -- Tomas Mraz No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back. Turkish proverb _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
