Hi Jonny,
On 10/8/21 3:28 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
I don't like that list. It is incomplete (the first one that comes to my mind is asprintf(3)). Either we provide a _complete_ list of functions that can be free(3)d, which I think will be difficult to keep up to date, or we use the same wording as POSIX, and say that it deallocates memory allocated as if by malloc(3).
What are your thoughts?
That sounds reasonable.
"deallocates" sounds better than "frees"
When I was going to fix it, I noticed that we already had that fixed
recently:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=cfc381be29fb7b4f642b8b333882f22628112abe>
Kind regards,
Alex
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