RE: Little questions

From: Gonzalo A. Arana <garana@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 20:56:01 -0300

> 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
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