From 588375444bb391723ed39d025de9e05129251ae5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:50:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] smb: Comment about not freeing memory in the child process.

Corresponds to FSP commit 368a749123dd7013ba445905c07eaea95b1e0f3b.
---
 src/protocol/smb/smb2.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/protocol/smb/smb2.c b/src/protocol/smb/smb2.c
index f6f59b7e..692f8caf 100644
--- a/src/protocol/smb/smb2.c
+++ b/src/protocol/smb/smb2.c
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ struct module smb_protocol_module = struct_module(
 	/* done: */		NULL
 );
 
+/* The child process generally does not bother to free the memory it
+ * allocates.  When the process exits, the operating system will free
+ * the memory anyway.  There is no point in changing this, because the
+ * child process also inherits memory allocations from the parent
+ * process, and it would be very cumbersome to free those.  */
+
 static void
 smb_error(int error)
 {