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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] libxl: add version_info function [and
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:07:32 +0100
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On 19/04/10 16:36, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I don't think that's correct because memory allocated by libxl_sprintf
> does not survive return from libxl into the caller.

It survives as long as the context is not ctx_free. i.e. if the data 
need to preserve longer, they will have do be duplicated before freeing 
the context.

This is to get away with having to deal with memory leak as much as 
possible and potential more complex code related to errors handling.

-- 
Vincent