On 10/13/2012 06:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Requiring pre-allocation was an unusual idiom. It allowed iteration
over the backing chain to use fewer mallocs, but made one-shot
clients harder to read. Also, this makes it easier for a future
patch to move away from opening fds on every iteration
Requiring pre-allocation was an unusual idiom. It allowed iteration
over the backing chain to use fewer mallocs, but made one-shot
clients harder to read. Also, this makes it easier for a future
patch to move away from opening fds on every iteration over the chain.
* src/util/storage_file.h
