[PATCH] libwbclient clear pointer on bad read

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:45:50PM +0000, Matthew Newton wrote:
>   ... at end of usage:
> 
>   wbcFreeContext(ctx);
> 
> which would mean updating all the public functions in libwbclient
> to have an extra 'ctx' passed to them?
> 
> The wbcContext would contain the fd, is_privileged, etc data, so
> all held in the calling process/thread.
> 
> Or did you have something else in mind?

Not, that's pretty much what I had in mind. Although I'd not
change the existing functions but create a complete set of
new functions with some function name prefix/postfix. Not
sure about a good suggestion here. The existing functions
would refence one global context and mutex its use.

Volker

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