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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Adding realloc()
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* Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> [020312 14:45] wrote:
> 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.

-Alfred

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