[vdr] rotor plugin puzzling question

[Chris Moore]

Hello,

ACK: this was clearly a bug ;-)

martinez at embl.de a écrit :
> Is it just me or the newly released rotor plugin for vdr 1.7.9 needs the
> following patch to the plugin itself in order to run (although it compiles
> fine without it)
> If the author reads these lines I would love to know why...
>
> --- rotor.c.old	2006-06-14 23:44:27.000000000 +0200
> +++ rotor.c	2006-06-14 23:46:43.000000000 +0200
> @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
>        continue;
>      if ((diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'h')) ||
> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'v')) ||
> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'l')) ||
> (diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'r'))) 
>      {
> -      char *c=strdup(diseqc->Commands());
> +      char *commandstring=strdup(diseqc->Commands());
> +      char *c=commandstring;      
>        while (c = strchr(c, '['))
>        {
>          char *e = strchr(++c, ']');
> @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@
>            break;
>          }
>        }
> -      free(c);
> +      free(commandstring);
>   

I am not the author (nor even a user) but you are absolutely right.
You must free the pointer as returned by strdup; not one that you have 
modified or incremented :(
So you need to keep a virgin copy of the pointer as you have done.

Cheers,
Chris