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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2006-09-30 15:09:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 2006-09-30 15:09:35 +0000 |
| commit | f01e40699cc30cbaca756ecae6e08718d7530d20 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d01936c3b0d192021c3cef15c58612e3ca15eea /posix | |
| parent | 690c3947edd0685817eb985e9cd58ecf043f2095 (diff) | |
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* posix/glob.c (glob_in_dir): Add some comments and asserts to
explain why there are no leaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'posix')
| -rw-r--r-- | posix/glob.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/posix/glob.c b/posix/glob.c index 630d540..0079a15 100644 --- a/posix/glob.c +++ b/posix/glob.c @@ -1287,8 +1287,15 @@ glob_in_dir (const char *pattern, const char *directory, int flags, for (size_t i = 0; i < cur; ++i) free (names->name[i]); names = names->next; + /* NB: we will not leak memory here if we exit without + freeing the current block assigned to OLD. At least + the very first block is always allocated on the stack + and this is the block assigned to OLD here. */ if (names == NULL) - break; + { + assert (old == &init_names); + break; + } cur = names->count; if (old == names_alloca) names_alloca = names; @@ -1306,8 +1313,15 @@ glob_in_dir (const char *pattern, const char *directory, int flags, new_gl_pathv[pglob->gl_offs + pglob->gl_pathc++] = names->name[i]; names = names->next; + /* NB: we will not leak memory here if we exit without + freeing the current block assigned to OLD. At least + the very first block is always allocated on the stack + and this is the block assigned to OLD here. */ if (names == NULL) - break; + { + assert (old == &init_names); + break; + } cur = names->count; if (old == names_alloca) names_alloca = names; |