From 135c2dc14f7c417c90d78c538149f610606f89c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:19:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] netrc: treat failure to find home dir same as missing netrc
file
This previously caused a fatal error (with a confusing error code, at
that).
Reported by: Glen A Johnson Jr.
---
RELEASE-NOTES | 1 +
lib/netrc.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index cc50d41646..bb4bcac0d9 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
o gnutls: fixed compilation against versions < 2.12.0
o build: Fixed overridden compiler PDB settings in VC7 to VC12
o ntlm_wb: Fixed buffer size not being large enough for NTLMv2 sessions [11]
+ o netrc: don't abort if home dir cannot be found
This release includes the following known bugs:
diff --git a/lib/netrc.c b/lib/netrc.c
index a1b00b2d6e..a7a7101595 100644
--- a/lib/netrc.c
+++ b/lib/netrc.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int Curl_parsenetrc(const char *host,
}
if(!home)
- return -1;
+ return retcode; /* no home directory found (or possibly out of memory) */
netrcfile = curl_maprintf("%s%s%s", home, DIR_CHAR, NETRC);
if(home_alloc)
--
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