Re: [fetchmail-users] BUG: failure to create fetchmail.pid file

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Jim Correia <jim...@po...> writes:

> It looks like env.c:105 sets up the user global by making a copy
>
> 	user = xstrdup(pwp->pw_name);
>
> but env.c:111 does not make a copy when setting up the home global
>
> 	home = pwp->pw_dir;
>
> The memory pointed at by home later gets modified because fetchmail
> calls getpwname at fetchmail.c:1214 (after setting up the globals.
>
> The man page for getpwnam says:
>
>      The functions getpwent(), getpwnam(), and getpwuid(), leave their
> results
>      in an internal static object and return a pointer to that object.
> Subse-
>      quent calls to the same function will modify the same object.
>
> Patch attached.

I've taken the patch, thank you!

Unfortunately, the patch isn't part of -rc5, but will become part of 6.3.6.

Best,

-- 
Matthias Andree