Uses of talloc
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Mon Oct 7 16:42:28 MDT 2013
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:56:31PM -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
> I've just released Version 3 of FreeRADIUS, the world's most popular
> RADIUS server. Which also does DHCP, VMPS, and which has a few other
> protocols on the roadmap.
>
> The release was languishing for a long time due to underlying
> architectural issues. In January, we decided to use talloc. After
> about 8 months of rapid development, we finally have a stable 3.0.
>
> I think that the release wouldn't have been possible without talloc.
> So thanks to everyone for your effort. It's made our lives easier.
Great ! Glad to hear it helped.
The only thing I'd caution you about is your use of
talloc_reference() in src/main/conffile.c:776.
It's a horrible interface I'd (personally) really
like to remove at some point, it turns a beautiful
talloc-tree into a graph :-(.
Jeremy.
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