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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-11-05 12:18:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-11-05 12:18:17 -0800 |
| commit | b8f5242592146c85c2e09fd9721e522ce4dd32e5 (patch) | |
| tree | ef6940721a58a3b0c747a4e756dfc80e8a48756a /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rs/wt-status-detached-branch-fix' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | daemon: plug memory leak (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b8f5242592146c85c2e09fd9721e522ce4dd32e5.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'rs/daemon-plug-child-leak' into maint
"git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it
needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.
* rs/daemon-plug-child-leak:
daemon: plug memory leak
run-command: factor out child_process_clear()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt index a9fdb45b93..8bf3e37f53 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ Functions The argument dir corresponds the member .dir. The argument env corresponds to the member .env. +`child_process_clear`:: + + Release the memory associated with the struct child_process. + Most users of the run-command API don't need to call this + function explicitly because `start_command` invokes it on + failure and `finish_command` calls it automatically already. + The functions above do the following: . If a system call failed, errno is set and -1 is returned. A diagnostic |