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| author | Marcus Meissner <marcus@jet.franken.de> | 2018-06-03 13:08:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Marcus Meissner <marcus@jet.franken.de> | 2018-06-03 13:08:59 +0200 |
| commit | 80c1c8bb8120466bc97f017faf48b07dd67bc8cc (patch) | |
| tree | ba804eed8eae49acb1ea1dcf7f5a145d2a51b26e /libgphoto2 | |
| parent | 3b1c6e825947c671064acfbb3edb99d28b893bc6 (diff) | |
| download | libgphoto2-80c1c8bb8120466bc97f017faf48b07dd67bc8cc.tar.gz | |
added note on ownership of the "data" pointer after gp_file_get_data_and_size
fixes https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2/issues/278
Diffstat (limited to 'libgphoto2')
| -rw-r--r-- | libgphoto2/gphoto2-file.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libgphoto2/gphoto2-file.c b/libgphoto2/gphoto2-file.c index 6fd48d43e..9a718e02a 100644 --- a/libgphoto2/gphoto2-file.c +++ b/libgphoto2/gphoto2-file.c @@ -386,8 +386,12 @@ gp_file_set_data_and_size (CameraFile *file, char *data, * * Both data and size can be NULL and will then be ignored. * - * The pointer to data that is returned is still owned by libgphoto2 - * and its lifetime is the same as the #file. + * For regular CameraFiles, the pointer to data that is returned is + * still owned by libgphoto2 and its lifetime is the same as the #file. + * + * For filedescriptor or handler based CameraFile types, the returned + * data pointer is owned by the caller and needs to be free()d to avoid + * memory leaks. * **/ int |