| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
|---|---|
| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] scripts/common.c minor memory leak |
| Date: | 2006-10-03 21:46:56 |
| Message-ID: | 200610032146.k93LkuA17441@momjian.us |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > Just a minor thing. In yesno_prompt(), the value is resp is allocated
> > memory that is never freed.
> >
> > File: src/bin/scripts/common.c
> > Line: 218
> >
> > Not terribly important though, it's not used in critical utilities, but
> > it's used often.
> >
> > Found by coverity.
> >
>
> It is surely not the only memory leak. We know there are some and in
> most cases (like this) they aren't worth the trouble to clean up. If it
> were used in psql or the backend I'd be worried, but it isn't, so I'm not.
I have applied the attached patch to fix this. One reason I think it is
good to fix this is because it illustrates poor use of simple_prompt(),
that might be copied by others.
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Bruce Momjian bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
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