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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxenlight: clone context to avoid GC
	corruption
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:11:10 +0000
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:09:10PM +0000, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> Provide a function to clone a context. This is necessary
> because simply copying the structs will eventually
> corrup the GC: maxsize is updated in the cloned context
> but not in the originating one, yet they have the same
> array of referenced pointers alloc_ptrs.

I think this doesn't answer the question of why you need this function
at all. I don't think you should clone the context nor share it.

-- 
Vincent