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Date:      Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:24:33 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r240527 - head/bin/df
Message-ID:  <5055E121.2030208@coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmDckK6RE=UG8dpMDuXk_zPeUTLbC4x74XYK9cJJiYfog@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201209142347.q8ENlN7N034951@svn.freebsd.org> <5054EBCB.6070105@coosemans.org> <5054F116.8090503@cran.org.uk> <CAF6rxgmDckK6RE=UG8dpMDuXk_zPeUTLbC4x74XYK9cJJiYfog@mail.gmail.com>

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On 16-09-2012 01:27, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 15 September 2012 17:20, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 15/09/2012 21:57, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>>
>>> Freeing memory right before exiting is a waste of time. The tool shouldn't
>>> complain about it.
> 
> Perhaps, but tools do. This has already been brought up on cfe-dev.
> 
>> "/Stop wasting time and just exit already/." -
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/05/10253268.aspx
> 
> I read this blog post when it came out. :)

In this case the free is actually wrong, because the pointer can point
to memory allocated by getmntinfo(3) and that manpage says an application
cannot free it.




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