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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: why is this not a bug in namei?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:13:02 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199509181114.VAA20899@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 18, 95 09:14:26 pm
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> >if HASBUF was set, we have freed something we didn't allocate..
> >(whenever we get an error, by the looks of it..)
> 
> It seems that error handlers are required to free the buffer no matter
> where it was allocated and everything is supposed to ignore HASBUF
> (perhaps everything in *cnp?) after an error.  Except if SAVESTART is
> set, then only the caller must free.

Promise to do the NFS server code (nfs_namei()), and I'll send you the
patches to fix all other instances.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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