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From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>
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Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:15:07 +0200
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Subject:	Re: A fix for popen()
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, DJ Delorie wrote:
> While your patch will fix that problem, setting l1->command to NULL
> fixes that problem *and* the other problems, so it is a better patch.
> 
> No reason why we can't have both patches (unless we later change
> something in popen/pclose that sets l1->command for other reasons),
> but l1->command still needs to be initialized.
> 
> Personally, I prefer a more paranoid approach - if command is set,
> even if we don't expect it to be, it needs to be freed.

I prefer this approach too but I do not want to interfer in this discussion.
The important issue here is the to notice that the patch proposed by Esa
this morning still does not resolve the complete issue. The patch inhibits
the call to free() in pclose but left the same malign code:
 error:

  if (l1->command)
    free(l1->command);

  if (temp_name)
    free(temp_name);

in popen(). This will make either sed ot texinfo breake (I do not remeber
which one of both). It must be avoided to deallocate *command pointer
inconditionaly.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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