Raymond Toy pushed to branch issue-408-get-user-name-and-homedir at cmucl / cmucl Commits: 8dd89bb8 by Raymond Toy at 2025-06-27T13:56:04-07:00 Add some more comments and update some others Add comment that the caller must free the space for the string that is returned. Add some comments for get_homedir_from_uid. - - - - - 1 changed file: - src/lisp/os-common.c Changes: ===================================== src/lisp/os-common.c ===================================== @@ -788,7 +788,8 @@ again: /* * Given the UID, return the user name. If the uid does not exist, - * returns NULL. + * returns NULL. The caller must call free on the string that is + * returned. */ char * os_get_username(uid_t uid) @@ -970,6 +971,13 @@ get_homedir_from_name(const char* name, int *status) return NULL; } +/* + * Return the home directory for the given UID. If the home directory + * does not exist, NULL is returned. STATUS is set to 0 if the home + * directory could be found. Otherwise, it is the errno. + * + * The caller must free the memory returned. + */ static char * get_homedir_from_uid(uid_t uid, int *status) { @@ -991,6 +999,8 @@ get_homedir_from_uid(uid_t uid, int *status) * home directory cannot be determined for any reason. The parameter * STATUS is 0 if the home directory could be determined. Otherwise * it is the errno value. + * + * The caller must free the memory returned for the result. */ char * os_get_user_homedir(const char* name, int *status) View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/commit/8dd89bb8f8a52075ac5b4eca... -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cmucl/cmucl/-/commit/8dd89bb8f8a52075ac5b4eca... You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.common-lisp.net.