Re: [Evolution-hackers] camel_store_get_folder_info() memory handling

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:37 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> CamelStore::free_folder_info()'s v.method can be overridden, so it's
> really up to your CamelStore implementation.
> 
> The consumer of the ::get_folder_info() API is supposed to
> call ::free_folder_info(), but since it can be overridden - you can make
> it noop, free the info, or free some subset of the info (e.g. it could
> free the structs but not the strings or some such if the strings point
> to some internal memory).
> 
> There are at least 2 convenience implementations in camel-store.h, one
> is a noop and one is a free-all type.
> 
> Hope that helps,

It does.

Thanks a lot :-)
  jules


> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:21 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please correct me if I am wrong, but I have suddenly become in doubt
> > about who "owns" the memory returned by camel_store_get_folder_info().
> > 
> > camel_store_get_folder_info() returns a CamelFolderInfo* so the memory
> > pointed returned by my provider implementation of get_folder_info() must
> > be freed by the caller. Is that correct?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   jules
> > 
> > 
> > 
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