Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/16924: tmpfile(3) ignores TMPDIR and always uses /tmp Message-ID: <200004060410.VAA13196@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/16924; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Lachlan O'Dea" <lodea@vet.com.au> To: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/16924: tmpfile(3) ignores TMPDIR and always uses /tmp Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:03:55 +1000 On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:54:37PM -0400, Daniel Hagan wrote: > You need to do error checking on your calls to malloc. Other than that, I > think it looks ok on an initial reading. (I'm certainly not an expert on > libc though.) Thanks for looking at this. I wanted to include error checking, but I wasn't sure of what action to take if an error occurred. I remember finding some other malloc calls in libc that didn't check for errors, so I just left it alone. If anyone can point me to an example of how to handle this, I'd appreciate it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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