Re: [ILUG] C question [puzzled by strdup()]

From: Waider (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Thu 02 Aug 2001 - 11:51:05 IST


At Thursday, 2 August 2001, you wrote:
>PREVENTION saying who is responsible for freeing it. like getpwnam -
>who free's that structure? is it a static in the function, or is it
>put on the heap and the user's responibility to free?
>
>kevin

Well, the ERRORS section says that a possible error is insufficient
memory to allocate passwd structure, and it returns a pointer to
same, so that would indicate that you have to free the pointer that's
returned.

Waider.

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