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In general, writers of authorization-granting applications should
assume that each module is likely to call any or
<span class="emphasis"><em>all</em></span> 'libc' functions. For 'libc' functions
that return pointers to static/dynamically allocated structures
(ie. the library allocates the memory and the user is not expected
to '<code class="function">free()</code>' it) any module call to this
function is likely to corrupt a pointer previously
obtained by the application. The application programmer should
either re-call such a 'libc' function after a call to the
<span class="emphasis"><em>Linux-PAM</em></span> library, or copy the
structure contents to some safe area of memory before passing
control to the <span class="emphasis"><em>Linux-PAM</em></span> library.
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Two important function classes that fall into this category are
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">getpwnam</span>(3)</span> and <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">syslog</span>(3)</span>.
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