[PATCH] do not free string returned by login_getcapstr

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 05:49, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> From the login_getcapstr man page,
> > Note that with all functions in this group, you should not call free(3)
> > on any pointers returned.  Memory allocated during retrieval or
> > processing of capability tags is automatically reused by subsequent calls
> > to functions in this group, or deallocated on calling login_close().

That seems to be a difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD, since the
latter says:

CAVEATS
     The string returned by login_getcapstr() is allocated via malloc(3) when
     the specified capability is present and thus it is the responsibility of
     the caller to free() this space.

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