pam-krb5 3.9 released (patch for AIX NAS library)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Dec 25 15:30:33 EST 2007


"Markus Moeller" <huaraz at moeller.plus.com> writes:
> "Russ Allbery" <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:

>>> const char *KRB5_CALLCONV error_message(long code) {
>>>  char *msg=NULL;
>>>  krb5_svc_get_msg(code,&msg);
>>>  return msg;
>>> }

>> Ah.  I think that part of your diff might not have been included.  It

> Line 240 in the patch should have it.

Yeah, found it.  Does krb5_svc_get_msg allocate new memory that then has
to be freed, or does it just set msg to a pointer to static space
somewhere?  (If there's a krb5_svc_free_msg function, that would answer
this question.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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