Christian Couder <christian.cou...@gmail.com> writes:

>> I do not think you need to think about "free"ing.
>
> Yeah, lockfile.h says:
> ...
> and:
> ...

Yup, we are now on the same page.

>> Even if the libified version of the apply internal can be called
>> multiple times to process multiple patch inputs, there is no need to
>> run multiple instances of it yet.  And a lockfile, after the caller
>> finishes interacting with one file using it by calling commit or
>> rollback, can be reused to interact with another file.

lockfile.h says this about the above paragraph, which is a more
important part ;-)

 * When finished writing, the caller can:
 * ...
 * Even after the lockfile is committed or rolled back, the
 * `lock_file` object must not be freed or altered by the caller.
 * However, it may be reused; just pass it to another call of
 * `hold_lock_file_for_update()`.

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