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Re: Silly question...
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Jeff Bailey |
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Re: Silly question... |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:25:08 -0800 |
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:13:44PM -0800, Jamshed Kakar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done some poking around for what appears to be a silly question
> but the answer doesn't seem to be overly obvious. Do I have to free
> the char* returned by strerror ()?
http://www.gnu.org/manual/libc/html_chapter/libc_2.html#IDX203
strerror is statically allocated (and not threadsafe) - do not free
it. strerror_r is thread safe, but I'm not sure if you need to free
it, or if it tracks it as static per-thread. If you need that info, I
can check for you.
--
I want to go live with the guy who came up with the phrase "Free like
beer"