Re: Moving zlib so that others may use it

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
9 Jan 2002 15:36:53 -0800

Followup to: <3C3CD304.9070704@acm.org>
By author: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm working on a function that uses zlib in the kernel, and I know of
> other places zlib is used (ppp_deflate, jffs2, mcore). I would expect
> more users to come along.
>

CAREFUL. First of all, don't mix up the deflate and inflate
functions, second of all, make sure you get the memory management
right. It's not trivial to do the latter, since the default zlib
memory management is unusable for at least some users in kernelspace.

-hpa

-- 
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/