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From: daniels@hanoi.enet.dec.com (Bradford R. Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS4.5 CRTL fstat does not free() malloc()ed memory (apparently)
Keywords: fstat malloc free VAXCRTL memory
Message-ID: <12498@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 20:53:50 GMT
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Reply-To: daniels@hanoi.enet.dec.com (Bradford R. Daniels)
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The problem is that fstat() calls getenv(), which allocates memory for
its return value.  There is a fixed version of getenv() which keeps
around old results so that it doesn't need to allocate memory every
time.  It will be available in "a future release of VMS", no doubt...

Your work-around is the best solution for now.

- Brad

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Brad Daniels			|  Digital Equipment Corp. almost
DEC Software Devo		|  definitely wouldn't approve of
"VAX C RTL Whipping Boy"	|  anything I say here...