Re: pgsql: Fix inconsequential FILE pointer leakage - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue dic 16 17:00:43 -0300 2010:

> --- a/src/port/exec.c
> +++ b/src/port/exec.c
> @@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ pipe_read_line(char *cmd, char *line, int maxsize)
>
>     if (fgets(line, maxsize, pgver) == NULL)
>     {
> +       pclose(pgver);      /* no error checking */
>         perror("fgets failure");
>         return NULL;
>     }
>
> Doesn't this risk having pclose trash the errno setting that perror is
> going to print?  If you must do this, please do it in the other order.

Gah, yes, sorry.  Fixed.

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