acl_from_text leaking memory

[Jim Wilcoxson]

The man page is correct and should not be changed.

In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not
where the leak occurs.  The leak occurs because of a temporary string
that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text.

Jim

On 11/16/09, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
>