From eab8755c854d3ba03f4ae9a16301413b776741e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claudio Jeker <claudio@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:02:08 +0000
Subject: There is no need to call freeaddrinfo() in case of an error.
 getaddrinfo() does that already by itself. OK jmc@ beck@

---
 lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.3 | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.3 b/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.3
index fd9f7fece59..b82dda59378 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/getaddrinfo.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: getaddrinfo.3,v 1.39 2005/01/29 00:49:47 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: getaddrinfo.3,v 1.40 2005/03/12 00:02:07 claudio Exp $
 .\"	$KAME: getaddrinfo.3,v 1.36 2005/01/05 03:23:05 itojun Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 2004  Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
@@ -279,6 +279,11 @@ structure created by a call to
 returns zero on success or one of the error codes listed in
 .Xr gai_strerror 3
 if an error occurs.
+If an error occurs, no memory is allocated by
+.Fn getaddrinfo ,
+therefore it is not necessary to release the
+.Li addrinfo
+structure(s).
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following code tries to connect to
 .Dq Li www.kame.net
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