On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> When update-cache --refresh replaces an existing cache entry
> with a new one, it forgets to free the original.
I've seen this patch now three times, and it's been wrong every single
time. Maybe we should add a comment?
That active-cache entry you free()'d was not necessarily allocated with
malloc(). Most cache-entries are just mmap'ed directly from the index
file.
Leaking is ok. We cannot leak too much.
Linus
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