[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated

[simo]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 12:36 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 12:26 -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 18:17 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > > Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer schrieb:
> > > > Sorry Jelmer,
> > > > 
> > > > this wasn't clear (to prevent the use of "TALLOC_FREE"). But a real
> > > > issue is the fact that we have already approximately 150-200 occourences
> > > > of it under "source4" (checked with "cscope"). And we merge more and
> > > > more with the s3 codebase so we get more and more occourences. Therefore
> > > > I would simply propose to allow it for s4 as well.
> > > 
> > > I think it's fine to use it also in source4.
> > 
> > Looks fine to me too, trading a warning from valgrind with a segfault
> > for dereferencing a NULL pointer doesn't seem a big issue.
> > Actually a segfault has probably more chances to be dealt with earlier.
> It would be nice to standardize on one or the other though rather than
> using a strange mix of both. Should we encourage the use of
> TALLOC_FREE() over talloc_free() ?

In my projects I actually use talloc_zfree(), which is similar to
TALLOC_FREE() but less ugly to see :)

given in s3 code TALLOC_FREE(0 is absolutely recommended I am ok if we
want to adopt the same guideline in s4

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>