Barath Aron wrote:
> What system implements a realloc() which does not work
> if ptr is null pointer?
None, according to our findings [1].
> I looked into the fchdir.c ...
new_dirs =
(dirs != NULL
? (dir_info_t *) realloc (dirs, new_allocated * sizeof *dirs)
: (di
Barath Aron wrote:
What system implements a realloc() which does not work if ptr is null pointer?
I think the main problem area here is realloc (NULL, 0), where POSIX does not
completely specify the behavior but GNU does. Only very ancient systems have
problems with realloc (NULL, x) when x i
Hello,
I looked into the fchdir.c (I was curious how it is implemented), and I
noticed something interesting. This is not an actual bug, but I wonder
why. The ensure_dirs_slot() function allocates some memory, and it uses
malloc() if no memory was allocated before, and uses realloc() otherwise
