Refactor getLine() to avoid potential memory leak

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DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines

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Refactor getLine() to avoid potential memory leak #770

Closed psomas closed 4 months ago

psomas commented 4 months ago

Daphne's getLine() calls libc's getline() with a NULL lineptr on each invocation. This results in getline() allocating a new buffer on each call, which, I think, never gets freed resulting in a memory leak.