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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2005-08-13 21:25:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2005-08-13 21:25:09 +0000 |
| commit | 4f0a5e7572a4257894b4bfede42c26d65152609e (patch) | |
| tree | 21e3d5ee20716739590e5931859a4c2052161395 /docs | |
| parent | d6d7d3769441b73ffb5b7af34fef823b41e66312 (diff) | |
* strip glib from avahi-core
* implement glib memory allocator
* add new documentation file MALLOC
* initialize pseudo-RNG from /dev/urandom in avahi-daemon
* remove some gcc 4.0 warnings
* beef up watch system with real timeouts
* move GCC __attribute__ macros into its own header avahi-common/gccmacro.h
* make use of GCC's sentinel attribute where it make sense
* add malloc() implementations that abort on OOM and enable them by default
git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@308 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/MALLOC b/docs/MALLOC new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c7db9e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/MALLOC @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Avahi supports pluggable memory allocator implemenations. See +<avahi-common/malloc.h> for more information. + +Currently, Avahi does not deal well with out-of-memory +situations. Therefore we recommend the usage of memory allocators that +abort() in case of OOM. The default allocator used by Avahi does this. + +Eventually we will improve Avahi to deal with these things better. + +$Id$ |