Hi Daniel, Daniel Shahaf writes: > It actually makes sense: "either there is a parent baton, or I'm > creating the root baton (and therefore the caller passed path=NULL)". > > Choosing path=NULL to represent "the root" seems odd to me (that's not > how we usually represent it), but that's for another day.
Ah. I guess that explains it was there in the first place :p I think I'm using "" to represent the root somewhere, but I'll have to check this. I'll figure something out during the cleanup. > > True. However, abspath is a `char *` with no memory allocated to it: I > > want whatever its value is to be allocated in `pool` since it's passed > > around. > > I think you've got your pointers confused. Can you drop the pstrdup(), > see that nothing breaks, and then we can discuss why nothing broke? Hehe, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case -- I've been working with APR pools day and night now :p Okay, I'll drop this during the cleanup. Do explain this to me though :) -- Ram
