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| author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-07-08 20:26:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-07-08 20:26:06 +0000 |
| commit | 460185d754fc7e31924f6209155ed38beb3a84de (patch) | |
| tree | 584fdcbb2de83fbaa836d9b4434fe7479144a5d7 /lib/libssl | |
| parent | 1a6b15919633e117ba71d5c0f5ad46fb0d6ab6c6 (diff) | |
Do not suggest using BUF_strdup() preferably to strdup() for fallacious
reasons.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libssl')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod b/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod index b761859086d..a83f46f8968 100644 --- a/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod +++ b/lib/libssl/src/doc/crypto/BUF_MEM_new.pod @@ -45,10 +45,7 @@ B<len>. Any data already in the buffer is preserved if it increases in size. BUF_strdup() copies a null terminated string into a block of allocated memory -and returns a pointer to the allocated block. Unlike the standard C library -strdup() this function uses OPENSSL_malloc() and so should be used in -preference to the standard library strdup() because it can be used for memory -leak checking or replacing the malloc() function. +and returns a pointer to the allocated block. The memory allocated from BUF_strdup() should be freed up using the OPENSSL_free() function. |