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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: Want messages.FwdHeaders preference
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Date: 10 Apr 91 17:46:05 GMT
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I think that in this case Adam was right, which is not surprising, and
Craig was wrong, which is considerably more unusual.  I think that if
the "refreshprofile" routine (or something like that) ever gets called,
the storage does indeed get reclaimed.  Refreshprofile gets called by
"setprofilestring" which is called, at least, by the "Set Options" code
in Messages.  (Craig probably missed this because setprof.c and
profile.c are separate files, and he was probably looking only at the
latter.)  

So, the moral is, if you want to keep it around, it might indeed be
prudent to make a copy of anything returned by getprofile.  This is what
the messageserver typically does -- see ams/libs/ms/init.c for examples.
 -- Nathaniel