Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:23:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hoek@hwcn.org Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? Message-ID: <199709150623.XAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970915001015.2337C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Sep 15, 97 00:23:09 am
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> I think he meant,
>
> "wouldn't it be nice if I could do"
>
> signal_handler () {
> ...
> pcopy = not_static_copy ("string",
> global_buffer_i_happen_to_keep_always_lying_around_especially_\
> for_use_in_my_signal_handlers);
> ...
> }
>
> Or maybe he meant,
>
> "wouldn't it be nice if I could do"
>
> printf ("%s%s", unstatic ("ab", buf1), unstatic ("bb", buf2));
>
> Of course, if I happen to pass NULL as the buffer, then it will
> use its own static buffer.
That's a nice compromise, actually. The only problem is that static
buffers are intrinsically sized.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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