[cs631apue] memory leak error I can't seem to find

[Marlon Seaton]

Good morning,

I am have the following memory error: Error in `./ls': corrupted size vs. prev_size: Can't seem to figure out why, but I believe it may have to do with how I am trying to allocate an array of pointers to strings. I guess my question is could the following code snippet potentially cause the problem that I am having?


Here's the code below:

pfilenames = malloc((numfiles + 1) * sizeof(char*));
   if(pfilenames == NULL)
   {
       perror("malloc failed\n");
       exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
   }

pfilenames[i] = malloc( (strlen(direntptr->d_name) + 1) * sizeof(char));
         if(pfilenames[i] == NULL)
         {
              perror("malloc failed\n");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
         }

         strcpy(pfilenames[i], direntptr->d_name);
         i++;
 numfiles is the number of files in the directory. I keep a running total of this as I am reading the files in the directory.


Thank you.

Marlon
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