Alex Kuleshov <kuleshovm...@gmail.com> writes:
>> One thing to note is that this illustration does not consider memory
>> pointed at by the "system_wide" variable here (from attr.c)
>>
>> static const char *git_etc_gitattributes(void)
>> {
>> static const char *system_wide;
>> if (!system_wide)
>> system_wide = system_path(ETC_GITATTRIBUTES);
>> return system_wide;
>> }
>>
>> at the point of process exit as a "leak".
>
> But why? We allocated memory to "system_wide" with system_path, next git
> will exit somewhere with die, but system_wide didn't free... Or i'm
> wrong here too?
It is in the same league as "static const char *git_dir" and friends
that appear in the file-scope-static of environment.c. Keeping small
things around to be cleaned up by exit() is not a crime.
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