Hi Peter, I was trying to do this \todo as you’ve suggested:

Btw. another \todo could be to make copy() return an auto_ptr. This way passing ownership of the object to the caller will be explicit. Changing that should be quite easy thanks to packet generation - we would only need to change the base class, the xsl templates and the one exception we have so far not using packet-gen (QueryHits from Wakingtan’s branch).

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I’ll probably be able to change the copy() faster but I guess it will be interesting for you to figure out how packet generation works :-). You’ll have to modify PacketHeader.xsl and PacketSource.xsl.

but I’ve ran into many troubles - copy() change is needed not only in the base class/xsl templates, but in many other sources (every copy() must returns auto_ptr ) and I finally haven’t managed to do that, so I think it would be better that you will take a look at it.

Thanks, Petr