Uses of talloc

[Andreas Schneider]

On Monday 07 October 2013 15:42:28 Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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 :-(.

We should add a Warning or Note to the documentation, shouldn't we?


	-- andreas


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