On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 04:45:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Skimming the tree there doesn't seem to be any callers which aren't exiting or
> ereporting on failure so the real-world impact seems low. That being said,
> silencing static analyzers could be reason enough to delay allocation.
A different reason would be out-of-core code that uses rmtree() in a
memory context where the leak would be an issue if facing a failure
continuously? Delaying the allocation after the OPENDIR() seems like
a good practice anyway.
--
Michael
