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Top Forums Programming Scanf() string pointer problem Post 302874249 by Corona688 on Thursday 14th of November 2013 02:03:30 PM
Old 11-14-2013
Right now you're not freeing anything, which is... kind of okay... the same way its okay, if sloppy, to not close open files. It all goes away when the program ends anyway. But if you were doing that 10,000 times in a loop you'd be using 10,000 times as much memory which could definitely be a Bad Thing.

How to free it? As soon as you don't need any of that array anymore, do this:

Code:
for (x = 0; x < numOfStudents; x++) { free(list[x].studentName); }
free(list);

 

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Temporary(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						      Temporary(4)

NAME
Temporary - Stores data files during transfers to remote systems SYNOPSIS
/usr/spool/uucp/SystemName/TM.xxPID.000 DESCRIPTION
The uucp Temporary (TM.*) files store data files during transfers to remote systems. After a Data (D.*) file is transferred to a remote system by the uucico daemon, the uucp program places it in a subdirectory of the uucp spooling directory named /usr/spool/uucp/SystemName, where the SystemName directory is named for the computer that is transmitting the file. The uucp program creates a temporary data file to hold the original data file. The full pathname of the temporary data file is in the following format: /usr/spool/uucp/SystemName/TM.xxPID.000 where the SystemName directory is named for the computer that is sending the file, and TM.xxPID.000 is the name of the file; for example, TM.00451.000. The PID variable is the process ID of the job. FILES
Describes accessible remote systems Contains uucp command, data, and execute files Contain data to be transferred. Contain files that uucp has transferred RELATED INFORMATION
Daemons: uucico(8) Commands: uucp(1), uudemon.cleanu(4), uupick(1), uuto(1), uux(1) delim off Temporary(4)
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