Bugs item #1692274, was opened at 2007-04-01 11:49
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>Category: API
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: sambira (sambira)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: libssh2_userauth_list returns a pointer to internal buffer

Initial Comment:
This API returns to the caller a buffer pointer that was allocated internally 
by the API and requires the user to free.  This is not good when overloading 
the allocate functions and the allocate is different than the free.  The API 
needs to require the user to either pass in a buffer to house the data or copy 
the data into their space or risk loosing the data.  I would opt for the later 
where the API does not change but the semantics of operation do.  The library 
API should then use an internal fixed buffer (maybe a stack buffer) to 
wearhouse the data and pass that pointer.  When the function is done, the data 
is gone.  Another option is to have the session structure contain a buffer for 
this information which the user can access since they have the pointer to the 
session buffer and the structure access to reference data from there (maybe 
provide a MACRO to access the information).  Just some thoughts.

Thanks,

Mark Wick

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>Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2007-06-28 23:09

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No, the returned string should NOT be freed by the application but is
handled by the library itself, as is now also mentioned in the man page
included in the 0.15 release.

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