Re: [PATCH 2/7] sequencer: release a strbuf used in save_head()

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Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Christian Couder wrote:
>>> [...]
>>       if (write_in_full(fd, buf.buf, buf.len) < 0) {
>>               strbuf_release(&buf);
>>               die_errno(_("Could not write to %s"), todo_file);
>
> [...]
> And
> looking at it from the other side, doesn't using exit mean that you
> cannot be valgrind-clean anyway, since allocations by functions higher
> in the call chain do not get a chance to be freed?

Good point; save_todo() sets a bad example.  For symmetry, should
these two instances of strbuf_release() before die() be removed in a
separate patch?

Ram
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