On 08/10/2021 15:58, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > 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 That's great. I noticed this page has a date 2021-03-22 for the 5.13 at the footer. But the release tarball is dated 27-Aug-2021 https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/malloc.3.html Possibly there is a reason the date is different? Kind regards Jonny
