The man page is correct and should not be changed. In the example program I submitted, it does call acl_free; this is not where the leak occurs. The leak occurs because of a temporary string that acl_from_text allocates to parse the text.
Jim On 11/16/09, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennej...@freenet.de> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:47 +0100 > vol...@vwsoft.com wrote: > >> you may want to have a look at the manpage acl_from_text(3): >> >> "...This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should >> free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by >> calling acl_free(3) with the (void *)acl_t as an argument." >> >> Please use an acl_free(void *obj_p) call afterwards to avoid leaking >> memory. >> > > The suggested fix was appplied to HEAD today. Apparently, the man page > should > now be updated. > > --- > Gary Jennejohn > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
