Unix Programming - Re: dirname return value

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Re: dirname return value

Barry Margolin

2006-07-04, 1:29 am

In article <1151969314.467377.214100@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
"spibou@gmail.com" <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
>
> What do you mean "dispose of" ? If you mean call free() on it then
> don't. If you were allowed to do that I expect that the man page
> would say so.

Or to put it another way, since it says it MAY use static storage, and
there's no way to find out whether it did or didn't, for safety you have
to assume it's static and not freeable.

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