GNU bug report logs - #12542
[PATCH] du: avoid abort on systems for which ->me_type is not malloc'd

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:34:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 12542-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 12542-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12542: [PATCH] du: avoid abort on systems for which ->me_type
	is not malloc'd
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:43:18 +0200
Jim Meyering wrote:
> I noticed that "make check" was failing a fundamental test of du
> on OpenBSD.  It would have been trivial to diagnose with valgrind,
> but that tool wasn't easily available on the affected system...

I've just pushed the patch.
A better one should come soon, in which I add
a function in mountlist.c (declared in the .h file)
by which to encapsulate this mount-entry freeing process.




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