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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:36:35 -0400
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From: Greg Marr <gregm@alum.wpi.edu>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: apr-util/buckets apr_buckets_mmap.c
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At 03:19 PM 06/26/2001, rbb@covalent.net wrote:
>No.  You can't allocate the MMAP out of malloc.  One of the goals of 
>pools is that they allow us to call malloc as little as 
>possible.  The MMAP should just get a copy of the filename, and this 
>problem goes away.

You'd rather allocate and copy a string and then recreate an MMAP 
than call apr_malloc once?  If so, then there's something seriously 
wrong with apr_malloc.

>You need to separate MMAPs from buckets.  Buckets are one place 
>MMAPs are used, but they are used in other places.

How is adding reference counting to the MMAP type tying MMAPs to 
buckets?  They're totally unrelated, except that the bucket is going 
to use the MMAP.  There's no coupling the other way.

-- 
Greg Marr
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