acl_from_text leaking memory

Gary Jennejohn gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Mon Nov 16 20:42:06 UTC 2009


On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:47 +0100
volker at vwsoft.com wrote:

> you may want to have a look at the manpage acl_from_text(3):
> 
> "...This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should
> free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by
> calling acl_free(3) with the (void *)acl_t as an argument."
> 
> Please use an acl_free(void *obj_p) call afterwards to avoid leaking memory.
> 

The suggested fix was appplied to HEAD today.  Apparently, the man page should
now be updated.

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Gary Jennejohn


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