On 10/17/2012 06:30 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 iterati
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 (vir
