On 16-09-2012 01:27, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 15 September 2012 17:20, Bruce Cran <br...@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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