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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/30968: whois client bug w/ .biz
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<<On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 04:20:02 -0700 (PDT), Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> said:

>   	while ((buf = fgetln(sfi, &len)) != NULL) {
>  +			newbuf = realloc(buf, len + 1);

You can't do this.  The buffer fgetln() returns belongs to stdio (it
may be a pointer into the FILE's buffer).

-GAWollman


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