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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 02:33:53 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mailwrapper mailwrapper.c
Message-ID:  <57630000.991704833@lobster.originative.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xzpg0dfbxos.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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--On Tuesday, June 05, 2001 02:02:59 +0200 Dag-Erling Smorgrav
<des@ofug.org> wrote:

> Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>   Log:
>>   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.
> 
> If you're going to exit() anyway, you don't need to bother freeing the
> string.

That would be a pretty sloppy coding habit in general which is why I
decided against it. I did think about it in this case though because errx
was the last consumer of the string.

Paul.


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