From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:03:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] use xstrdup, not strdup in ll-merge.c Message-ID: <81b0412b0906141503v14484d9fyea56198910305bfc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87bpoqoavp.fsf@meyering.net> 2009/6/14 Jim Meyering : > @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static int read_merge_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) > >        if (!strcmp(var, "merge.default")) { >                if (value) > -                       default_ll_merge = strdup(value); > +                       default_ll_merge = xstrdup(value); read_merge_config has a failure mode (where it returns -1), why not use it?