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From: leslie.polzer@gmx.net
Subject: Handling ioctl() argp memory
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:48:44 +0100
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Hello folks,

  I'm passing an array to a ioctl.
  ioctl(2) says it needs to point at memory, so I'm allocating it.
  Do I need to, or rather, am I allowed to free the memory afterwards?

  It seems I'm getting segfaults when I free the memory...

    Leslie

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