[PATCH] parametric options
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Thu Jan 2 13:05:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 23:51, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >This doesn't seem right - why not just free and replace that talloc
> >context?
>
> I only want to free one segment in the talloc context and all other
> talloced memory in this talloc context should not be free'ed!
>
> > > a also add a view talloc_realloc_*() functions
> > >
> > > talloc_realloc_strdup() ...
> >
> >Why?
>
> If we have a struct witch is talloced
> and strings in the struct are talloced on the same talloc context should be
> replaced, it would be fine to free the memory of the old string...:-)
Talloc doesn't work that way, and should not be made to work that way.
If you want that, then you have malloc() and free().
Andrew Bartlett
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