From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu, unionfs@filesystems.org,
bunk@stusta.de, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:22:58 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702211121540.25522@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020702211119ub028ccahee15629f02491840@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Well, as a reference, the user-space equivalent is defined in SUSv3 as:
>
> "The realloc() function shall change the size of the memory object
> pointed to by ptr to the size specified by size."
The realloc functions intent is to leave the object in place if possible.
Otherwise one can simply alloc a new object and free the old one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-21 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 8:06 Pekka J Enberg
2007-02-21 9:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-21 9:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 9:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-21 17:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 17:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 18:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 18:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 18:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 18:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-21 19:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-21 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
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