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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:38:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding realloc()
Message-ID:  <200203130138.g2D1cqh68436@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020313000622.GA32410@elvis.mu.org> "from Alfred Perlstein at Mar 12, 2002 04:06:22 pm"

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Alfred Perlstein writes:
> > > > I've had the need for a realloc() in the kernel several times
> > > > before and am having it once again. Finally figured it's time to
> > > > do something about it.
> > > 
> > > Where is the update to malloc(9)?  What about reallocf?
> > 
> > Good points, thanks.. try this one instead.
> 
> That looks ok, afaik you could do some vm tricks to avoid having
> to malloc/free when doing realloc()'s that are larger than PAGE_SIZE.

Yeah I was wondering about that & how hard it would be.
That'd be the next step I guess.. thanks for the comments.

-Archie

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