Description Enji Cooper 2014-09-02 01:18:15 UTC

basename(3) creates a static buffer for storing paths. This libcall can fail if malloc fails however, and this potential failure isn't documented in the manage:

68 char *
69 basename(const char *path)
70 {
71         static char *bname = NULL;
72 
73         if (bname == NULL) {
74                 bname = (char *)malloc(MAXPATHLEN);
75                 if (bname == NULL)
76                         return (NULL);
77         }