[PATCH] Add comments to explain when a stream is freed by, __libc_freeres().

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Tue May 26 09:37:57 GMT 2020


On Mai 26 2020, Florian Weimer wrote:

> How can it be?  It's not an observable effect.  No user code runs after
> this point, so what difference does it make?

I don't understand.  You postulate a leak due to "neglected to call
fclose", but streams are guaranteed to be closed anyway, thus there is
no leak.

Andreas.

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