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Toby Peterson patched a memory problem in the command line tool that

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happened when a user had a home dir as an empty string. curl would then do
free() on a wrong area.
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Daniel Stenberg 2007-11-01 21:49:59 +00:00
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Changelog Changelog
Daniel S (1 Nov 2007)
- Toby Peterson patched a memory problem in the command line tool that
happened when a user had a home dir as an empty string. curl would then do
free() on a wrong area.
Dan F (1 Nov 2007) Dan F (1 Nov 2007)
- Fixed curl-config --features to not display libz when it wasn't used - Fixed curl-config --features to not display libz when it wasn't used
due to a missing header file. due to a missing header file.

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o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built o curl-config --features and --protocols show the correct output when built
with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available with NSS, and also when SCP, SFTP and libz are not available
o free problem in the curl tool for users with empty home dir
This release includes the following known bugs: This release includes the following known bugs:
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This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these: advice from friends like these:
Dan Fandrich, Gisle Vanem, Toby Peterson
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone) Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

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* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
* *
* Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
* *
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
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#endif #endif
if (home && home[0]) if (home && home[0])
home = strdup(home); home = strdup(home);
else
home = NULL;
} }
} }
#endif /* PWD-stuff */ #endif /* PWD-stuff */