Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Well, as a reference, the user-space equivalent is defined in SUSv3 as:
> 
> "The realloc() function shall change the size of the memory object
> pointed to by ptr to the size specified by size."

The realloc functions intent is to leave the object in place if possible.
Otherwise one can simply alloc a new object and free the old one.
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