Hi! Friday, 05 October, 2001 Yasushi Higuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
YH> I found a problem in the getcwd() function in recent snapshot. [...] >> char *cwd = getcwd(NULL, 256); [...] Single Unix Specification v2 says that "If buf is a null pointer, the behaviour of getcwd() is undefined." YH> Reference: FreeBSD manpages >>STANDARDS >>The getcwd() function conforms to ISO 9899: 1990 (``ISO C''). The ability >>to specify a NULL pointer and have getcwd() allocate memory as necessary >>is an extension. cygwin doesn't support this extension. it's arguable whether it should be added or not. code that implicitly allocates (on doesn't allocate, depending in parameters) memory on heap is a source of potential memory leaks. Egor. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
