Re: Retry: man pages bug in snprintf (3)

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 11/13/13 10:24, Arif Zaman wrote:
> Sorry, my last message contained html. Here is a plain-text version of the same thing.
> 
> In the final example on the man page for snprintf (3),
> 
> after the /* check error code */ there should be:
> 
>         if (n < 0) {
>             free(p);
>             return NULL;
>         }
> 
> in order to avoid a memory leak.
> 
> This was discussed on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19933479/snprintf-man-page-example-memory-leak.

Thanks for reporting this. I made the change as you suggest.

Cheers,

Michael


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