* Re: Retry: man pages bug in snprintf (3) [not found] ` <CAF2ooDxfNBV+x=SnWc853fagRuME7QZh1P61prQ_djF-6yRNGw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> @ 2013-12-30 7:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2013-12-30 7:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Arif Zaman Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA 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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
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