On 15/07/2014, at 1:45 PM, Jeff Darcy wrote: >> Please respond if you guys volunteer to add documentation for any >> of the following things that are not already taken. > > I think the most important thing to describe for each of these is the > "life cycle" rules. When I've tried to teach people about translators, > one of the biggest stumbling blocks has been the question of what gets > freed after the fop, what gets freed after the callback, and what lives > on even longer. There are different rules for dict_t, loc_t, inode_t, > etc. Dict_set_*str is one of the worst offenders; even after all this > time, I have to go back and re-check which variants do what when the > dict itself is freed. If the only thing that comes out of this effort > is greater clarity regarding what should be freed when, it will be > worth it. +1 :) -- GlusterFS - http://www.gluster.org An open source, distributed file system scaling to several petabytes, and handling thousands of clients. My personal twitter: twitter.com/realjustinclift _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
