From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:24:35 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: copy: remove unnecessary ‘free’
X-Git-Tag: v9.1~132
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbc7958b36dd5bbc56f5cb4368abd6734ebff0a3;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

copy: remove unnecessary ‘free’

* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Remove a ‘free’ call that does nothing
because its argument is always a null pointer, starting with
2007-11-1608:31:15Z!jim@meyering.net.
---

diff --git a/src/copy.c b/src/copy.c
index 753d6ccd98..b2e3cb1f76 100644
--- a/src/copy.c
+++ b/src/copy.c
@@ -1078,7 +1078,6 @@ copy_reg (char const *src_name, char const *dst_name,
 {
   char *buf;
   char *buf_alloc = NULL;
-  char *name_alloc = NULL;
   int dest_desc;
   int dest_errno;
   int source_desc;
@@ -1459,7 +1458,6 @@ close_src_desc:
     }
 
   free (buf_alloc);
-  free (name_alloc);
   return return_val;
 }