hacking: mention strdup in the no-malloc section.

Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev@drbeat.li>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in
index 06852784..19ee6d78 100644
--- a/www/hacking.html.in
+++ b/www/hacking.html.in
@@ -489,6 +489,9 @@ to be embedding a PATH_MAX-sized buffer in the gpsd.h structure.</p>
 
 <p>Don't undo this by using malloc/free in a driver or anywhere else.</p>
 
+<p>Please note that this restriction includes indirect callers of malloc
+like strdup.</p>
+
 <h2 id="sizeof">Avoid use of sizeof(&lt;int type&gt;)!</h2>
 
 <p>It's tempting to extract parts of packets with by using a loop of the