Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes: >> I don't see that, and I don't like adding a check that I don't expect to be >> ever needed. > > It's called self-documenting code; by adding a check for the NULL > pointer, we are stating that ce can be NULL, if we don't do that, > people reading that code would need to figure that out themselves.
People following the codepath to unpack_nondirectories() already have seen enough to know what src[] means and very well know what NULL in it means. The only people possibly confused are those who do not know free(NULL) is safe, isn't it? Honestly speaking, I do not want such people to be touching this part of the system. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
