From kde-core-devel  Mon Aug 10 10:51:52 2009
From: Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek () gmx ! de>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:51:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kio_sftp rewrite
Message-Id: <200908101251.52689.bartoschek () gmx ! de>
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Am Montag 10 August 2009 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > Asunto: Re: kio_sftp rewrite
> >
> > -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > > free() [....] should not crash on NULL
> >
> > wrong
>
> Not wrong:
> [1] Linux: If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed.
> [2] SCO: If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs
> [3] Microsoft: If memblock is NULL, the pointer is ignored and free
> immediately returns. [4] FreeBSD: If ptr is NULL, no action occurs.
>

It's even required by POSIX:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xsh/free.html

Christoph