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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: avoiding strdup()
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:53:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 18:47:42 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> I've seen a lot of open source code
> that uses strdup without checking for failure and frequently
> "forgetting" to free the result.

I was looking at the systemd source code the other day, and came across a 
lot of this sort of thing:

    _cleanup_free_ char *link = NULL;

Now, what do you suppose “_cleanup_free_” does?