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I'm working on Linux and FreeBSD. When I use
getpwnam()
or
getpwuid()
, I get a pointer to a
passwd
struct. What's the safe way to use the
char*
members of that
passwd
struct?
The man page says this struct is a static object but will be overwritten by subsequent calls, so I guess the safe way is to use
strdup()
to get a copy of the
char*
members and then no longer uses the
passwd
struct.
Is my understanding correct?
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