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[ping] Re: [Bug-tar] memleak in paxutils


From: Eric Blake
Subject: [ping] Re: [Bug-tar] memleak in paxutils
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:11:14 -0600
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According to Eric Blake on 7/20/2007 10:08 PM:
> Ever since gnulib changed the dirname module in late 2005, paxutils has
> had a memleak (base_name was changed to malloc memory, and last_component
> was added as the non-allocating variant).  Here's the patch:
> 
> 2007-07-20  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
> 
>       Avoid memory leak from gnulib dirname module.
>       * lib/rtapelib.c (rmt_open__): Use last_component, not base_name.
>       * paxlib/rtape.c (rmt_open): Likewise.

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