[Click] Question on uniqueify() usage

Beyers Cronje bcronje at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 09:56:48 EST 2010


Hi Ruben,



> I have a short question on the usage of the uniqueify() function. Here
> is what doxygen says:
>
> WritablePacket *q = p->uniqueify();
>  if (!q)
>     return 0;
>  // p must not be used here.
>
> Ok, p must not be used anymore, but do you have to call p->kill() to free
> p?
>

No you do not have to call p->kill(), after uniqueify() you only need be
concerned about q.

Beyers


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