Re: lib/50681: memory leak in tdelete(3) when deleting root node

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR lib/50681; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	markiyan.kushnir%gmail.com@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/50681: memory leak in tdelete(3) when deleting root node
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:44:14 -0500

 On Jan 20,  7:35pm, markiyan.kushnir%gmail.com@localhost (Markiyan Kushnir) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: lib/50681: memory leak in tdelete(3) when deleting root node
 
 |  Based on discussion with Pedro F. Giffuni (pfg%freebsd.org@localhost) and
 |  further with Ed Shouten (ed%freebsd.org@localhost), my suggestion to return NULL
 |  in that case was not correct.  A recent revision of POSIX prescribes
 |  to return "unspecified non-null pointer" in this case.  So just a
 |  reversal of revision 1.4 of tdelete.c was suggested.
 |  
 
 But that leaks? Right?
 
 christos