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Date:      Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        kris@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper mailwrapper.c
Message-ID:  <200107191440.f6JEedO32662@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200107190504.f6J54ka10016@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 18 Jul, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> kris        2001/07/18 22:04:46 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>     usr.sbin/mailwrapper mailwrapper.c 
>   Log:
>   MFC: r1.6:  You can't  free a string  and then use  it as  the error
>   message to errx. Instead use warn  to print the string, then cleanup
>   and exit normally.

This is  not the first  place to have this  issue (I remember  a similar
commit from the past). May be, it  is time to add another err* function,
which will free the passed error message prior to exiting?

It was not there before, I guess, because the "founding fathers" did not
concern themselves with the fate of the allocated memory after exit :-)

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