From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 11:40:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B335A106566C for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA528FC0C for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8EBeDco025350 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8EBeDQs025336; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 GMT Message-Id: <201209141140.q8EBeDQs025336@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Erik Cederstrand Cc: Subject: Re: bin/171634: Memory leak in /bin/df X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Erik Cederstrand List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:40:13 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/171634; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Erik Cederstrand To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/171634: Memory leak in /bin/df Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:34:20 +0200 Hello Xin Li, Den 14/09/2012 kl. 10.14 skrev Xin Li : > I believe this is a false positive. There is no reason to release > memory right before quit, it's a waste of time and OS reclaims the > memory regardless. I raised question this on the Clang list. Joerg Sonnenberger replied = this: I wouldn't classify it as false positive. E.g. it is perfectly sane=20 to redefine main as macro to use in a larger program. It's a one-liner and it's done anyway, albeit implicitly, so maybe it's = not too bad to make the free() explicit? Erik=