Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Well.. this code seems cleaner than the older one and without memory leaks :)

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    and leaks memory.  If the path is 400, you do 3 mallocs, but the
>    first two are never freed.
>
> That is just a small matter of moving the free outside the if. :-)
>
>  int buf_size = 100;
>  while (1)
>    {
>       buf = (char *) xmalloc (buf_size);
>       if (getcwd (buf, buf_size) == buf)
>         break;
>       free (buf);
>       if (errno != ERANGE)
>           fatal ("`getcwd' failed: %s\n", strerror (errno));
>       size *= 2;
>    }