[PATCH] parametric options

[Andrew Bartlett]

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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