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Date:	Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:02:18 -0700
From:	Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Subject:	Re: A fix for popen()
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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:28:16 -0500, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>
>Under what conditions would l1->command be nonzero but not allocated
>memory?  I think the logic is correct where you marked it, but
>something else is wrong to set them incorrectly.

JMG's post of 11-28 <41AADB99 DOT 14622 DOT 194D345 AT localhost> showed the
issue and a possible patch: the struct is malloc()ed and gets
previously used memory; the ptrs in the struct are not NULLed after
allocation; the ptrs are later free()d without going through a code
path that sets them. 

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