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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