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Subject: Re: settings.c confuses me
From: Björn Stenberg (bjorn_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2003-03-24

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TP Diffenbach wrote:
> Why not just read the settings on disk into global settings:
> read( fd, &global_settings, sizeof( global_settings)?, with some additional
> code for the RTC?

The config block is packed into 512 bytes, while the global_settings struct is unpacked and thus bigger. The memory we waste using a bigger struct is saved by enabling simpler code to access the data. (Booleans as ints instead of bits, for example.)

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Björn

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