xffm changes

[Thomas Leonard]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:07:42AM +0100, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> > > I must admit I used to think as you, but it's Thomas Leonard's fault
> > > that I combine both tecniques (reading code from rox filer I noticed he
> > > uses buffers of 4096, to hold stuff much smaller).
> 
> Hehehe, it's gotta be someone's fault, so why not yours ? lol :)
> 
> > We only do this when there's no way to know how much memory to allocate in
> > advance, eg when calling gethostname, and we always reallocate it onto the
> > heap once we've got it. I'm pretty sure we have no fixed-size buffers that
> > aren't only allocated very briefly on the stack for this purpose...
> 
> g_strdup_printf() is my friend here :)

Or, indeed, g_strdup() ;-)

> BTW, Thomas, did you notice that xfce-mcs-manager and xfce-mcs-plugins
> now come with separate packages, so that ROX users can use
> xfce-mcs-manager+xfwm4 along with ROX Session ?

Just upgraded -- looks good! Thanks :-)


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