[Mapserver-dev] New msCloneLayerObj() function

[Jan Hartmann]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> 

> int msCopyLayer(layerObj *dst, layerObj *src, mapObj *map);
> 
> I picked the argument order to resemble memcpy().  The mapObj is
> needed as a final argument because the destination layer needs a
> pointer  to it's parent map.

Sean,

The layerObj struct already has a pointer to its parent map (as well as 
to its own index in the map->layers array). Almost all bookkeeping you 
need is already available. I discovered this when implementing 
connection pooling; most of my original code could be discarded after that.

Jan