> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:39, Gonzalo A. Arana wrote: > > >You'll want to have a sync layer over whatever > > > allocator your compressor/decompressor use). > > > > Ouch! zlib uses malloc and I can't change that without > patching zlib, > > can I? So, no mempools can be used for those mallocs, right? > > zlib allows you to pass in an allocator function, If you use > the default convenience functions, then no, you can't. But > it's easy to hand in a function pointer that will do the > right thing. Ditto for bz2lib.
True, silly me. > > Btw, should I download from your arch all files > > > squid--disk-io--3.0/patch-+([0-9])/squid--disk-io--3.0--{base,patch}-+ > > ([ > > 0-9]).tar.gz ? And then apply all patches found on each > .gz in order? > > I find this 'arch' thing quite confusing. Sory if this is a silly > > question. > > Oh, sorry. Arch is 'GNU Arch', and you can download it from (I should say 'sorry', not you). > SNIP .. Uou! Sounds like a good tool. I'll look into it. Thanks for the tutorial. I'll look into your branches, thank you very much for the valuable information. > > Cheers, + 4 u > Rob G