From 854ec81bfcffd6f0e5939789b0ffbc410f7910b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: malaterre <malaterre>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:16:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: scandir was leaking like crazy, we shouldnt be using
 this function anyway

---
 src/gdcmDirList.cxx | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/gdcmDirList.cxx b/src/gdcmDirList.cxx
index 5f8f3ccc..e3a00ccc 100644
--- a/src/gdcmDirList.cxx
+++ b/src/gdcmDirList.cxx
@@ -92,9 +92,15 @@ void gdcmDirList::Explore(std::string dirName,bool recursive)
    }
 
 #else
+   // None  of  these  functions  is  in  POSIX.  The functions scandir() and
+   // alphasort() are from BSD 4.3, and have been available under Linux since
+   // libc4.  Libc4 and libc5 use the more precise prototype
+
    struct dirent **namelist;
    int n=scandir(dirName.c_str(), &namelist, 0, alphasort);
 
+   //if n < 0 should raise error
+
    for (int i= 0;i < n; i++) 
    {
       fileName=namelist[i]->d_name;     
@@ -107,7 +113,9 @@ void gdcmDirList::Explore(std::string dirName,bool recursive)
       {
          this->push_back(dirName+fileName);
       }
+      free(namelist[i]);
    }
+   free(namelist);
 #endif
 }
 
-- 
2.48.1