From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 6 18:30:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23449 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23319; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@FreeBSD.org) From: Julian Elischer Received: (from julian@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA27808; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810070130.SAA27808@freefall.freebsd.org> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen scandir.c Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk julian 1998/10/06 18:30:02 PDT Modified files: lib/libc/gen scandir.c Log: Fix a memory leak PR: 7923 Submitted by: Archie Cobbs The scandir() function returns -1 if it fails. In many cases when this happens, it does not free the memory that it allocated, resulting in a memory leak, or close the directory opened with opendir(). BAD DOG, BAD! Revision Changes Path 1.5 +25 -15 src/lib/libc/gen/scandir.c