Re: malloc() patches round 3

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:16:45AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote:
> diff -rup /local/src/hurd.orig/utils/x.c hurd/utils/x.c
> --- /local/src/hurd.orig/utils/x.c    Tue Aug 27 14:27:31 1996
> +++ hurd/utils/x.c    Wed Aug 22 00:10:37 2001
> @@ -148,8 +148,12 @@ void verify_passwd (const char *name, co
>      return;                  /* Already got this one.  */
>  
>    if (name)
> -    asprintf (&prompt, "Password for %s%s:",
> -           is_group ? "group " : "", name);
> +    {
> +      asprintf (&prompt, "Password for %s%s:",
> +                is_group ? "group " : "", name);
> +      if (! prompt)
> +        prompt = "Password:";
> +    }
>    else
>      prompt = "Password:";
>  

The C library manual says that asprintf returns -1 on error and suggests
if (asprintf (...) < 0)
  ...

Thanks,
Marcus

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