proper semantics for returning a character string?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 21 14:18:04 UTC 2006
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:29:06PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i'll just assume that's a typo. the issue that was raised
> > earlier, though, was that if you call that routine repeatedly,
> > even for the same UID, you're going to slowly consume memory as
> > every call to getpwuid() allocates space for a new "struct
> > passwd", right? and that
>
> Absolutely not. It returns a static buffer.
yes, i think we finally established that, despite the man page being a
bit ambiguous about it.
rday
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