Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.c

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19.06.2006, at 18:18, Jonas Trollvik wrote:
> What's the point of adding this?
> I remember a discussion on the lists here a year ago or so where it's
> stated that the OS will take care of that as soon as the process exits
> and that it'll do so faster than the process itself.
> It seems to me that the next operation after the fts_close() is 
> exit(eval);

yes, you are right.  yet this aligns us more with NetBSD, so it is some 
gain.  additionally, if you imagine compiling rm as a builtin to sh (we 
don't do that, but it is possible), freeing it is neccessary.

cheers
  simon

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