From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:56:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-clone.c: fix memory leak in cmd_clone()
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904011754250.13502@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <20090401144056.GC2237@lilem.mirepesht>

Hi,

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Ali Gholami Rudi wrote:

> With this patch, cmd_clone() safely frees its xstrdup()-allocated
> memory.  Also junk_work_tree and junk_git_dir (used in remove_junk()
> which is called asynchronously) were changed to use static arrays rather
> than sharing the memory allocated in cmd_clone().

If you want to go down that route, you will have a long way to go: the 
assumption is pretty much in every cmd_() and main() function that 
singletons will be free()d automatically when the process ends.

Ciao,
Dscho