[lxc-devel] [PATCH] fix getline(3) memory leaks

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Christian Seiler (christian at iwakd.de):
> Hi there,
> 
> > Yeah I've tested before (because I used to want to think glibc would
> > check for that) and it definately segvs.  I'll push this patch with
> > that added.
> 
> I'm a bit confused, this goes against everything I know about C memory
> management:

It surprised me as well at the time,

> ANSI C (ANSI X3J11/88-090, May 13, 1988) [1], Section 4.10.3.2:
> 
>   If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs.

and I didn't go back to check that.  That's enough to make me
feel confident removing it.

Meanwhile, HUH.  retrying, I don't get segv.  I don't recall which
toolchain I tried that under.

So we can reverse that, thanks.

-serge