[issue1398] hdestroy(3) restricts hash key to point to malloc'ed space

["Stathis Kamperis \(via DragonFly issue tracker\)" <sinknull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi@gmail.com> added the comment:

>> hdestroy(3) frees the memory pointed to by the hash key. In other words it
>> expects the user to always have malloc()'ed rather than used static allocation
>> for the hash key. This doesn't apply to the data associated with the key.

> Any thoughts about this one ?
> If no objections are raised, I'm going to push it in ~1 week.

I'll tweak the example in the man page, add a few words in the text and commit it.

Reviewed by dillon@ and hasso@.

Cheers,
Stathis

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