From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 10:29:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/25] mingw: avoid memory leak when splitting PATH
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1705041225090.4905@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <789a242b-7369-f24c-0b92-09f415f9fcb5@web.de>

Hi René,

On Wed, 3 May 2017, René Scharfe wrote:

> Am 02.05.2017 um 18:00 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > In the (admittedly, concocted) case that PATH consists only of colons, we
> > would leak the duplicated string.
> 
> Nit: It's about semicolons, right?  At least that's what get_path_split
> is searching for.  Or is there some kind of translation going on?

True, it is semicolons.

I'll reword the commit message to actually use `path delimiters`, to make
it more understandable to the Unix folk (who would most likely be puzzled
that PATH is separated by semicolons).

Thanks,
Dscho