From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Arif Zaman <arifz-fYzJem42smjeSsnKWxLhYw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Retry: man pages bug in snprintf (3)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:52:17 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C12631.8080209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2ooDxfNBV+x=SnWc853fagRuME7QZh1P61prQ_djF-6yRNGw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@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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