Re: [PATCH] fixed return value check of sysoncf in get_name_from_passwd_file / get_username_from_passwd_file

Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixed return value check of sysoncf in get_name_from_passwd_file / get_username_from_passwd_file

Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:55:28 -0700

To: Matthias Guedemann, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Carl Worth

On Wed, 25 May 2011 14:27:55 +0200, Matthias Guedemann <matthias.guedemann@ovgu.de> wrote:
> 
> When trying to port notmuch to DragonFlyBSD I found it core dumped
> immediately. The reason was that the "sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)"
> call returned -1 which is used for talloc memory allocation. The check
> was there but was done _after_ the allocation, the attached patch fixes
> this.

Thanks for the (obvious in hindsight) fix, Matthias.

I've pushed this out now.

-Carl

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carl.d.worth@intel.com
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