Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Make it clear that xs_get_domain_path() requires free()

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Stekloff wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, why have xenstore create a buffer that must be
> freed. Why not have the calling application create a buffer and manage
> it on its own?
>  
Because Rusty made it that way :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:11 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>  
>
> > plain text document attachment (7574-xenconsole.diff)
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > # Node ID a44fde5c4e15bdf2f8b42fa41439d6725a5363dc
> > # Parent  6de1d7b66c8a52ac6420f35aac03fe219caf87a3
> > Make it clear that the result of xs_get_domain_path() must be free()'d.
> >
> > diff -r 6de1d7b66c8a -r a44fde5c4e15 tools/xenstore/xs.h
> > --- a/tools/xenstore/xs.h       Tue Nov  1 11:08:31 2005 -0500
> > +++ b/tools/xenstore/xs.h       Tue Nov  1 11:09:57 2005 -0500
> > @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
> >  */
> > bool xs_release_domain(struct xs_handle *h, unsigned int domid);
> >
> > -/* Query the home path of a domain.
> > +/* Query the home path of a domain.  Call free() after use.
> >  */
> > char *xs_get_domain_path(struct xs_handle *h, unsigned int domid);
> >
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