Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN

[Andreas Schwab]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    and leaks memory.  If the path is 400, you do 3 mallocs, but the
>    first two are never freed.
>
> That is just a small matter of moving the free outside the if. :-)
>
>  int buf_size = 100;
>  while (1)
>    {
>       buf = (char *) xmalloc (buf_size);
>       if (getcwd (buf, buf_size) == buf)
>         break;
>       free (buf);
>       if (errno != ERANGE)

At this point errno may already be changed by free().  Why not just use
xrealloc in the first place?

Andreas.

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