On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ammon Riley <ammon.riley@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> There was an xmalloc() for path, but I didn't see a corresponding free(). >> Does it happen somewhere else that I'm not expecting? > > It implicitly happens in exit() in git.c:handle_internal_command() > after cmd_init_db() returns the control to it. Ah. Naturally. :) So if I were to write a long-lived application (such as a custom UI) that links to libgit, and bypasses those functions to call init_db() (and other functions) directly, all those implicit free-on-exit() turn into memory leaks. Cheers, Ammon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html