[sldev] "Unreferenced" assets

[Tateru Nino]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-05-19, at 17:10, Sean Lynch wrote:
>> GC is the only way assets will get deleted (other than single 
>> reference assets like scripted attachments, but that code is not in 
>> production yet),
>
> o_O
>
> Please be very very careful.
>
> Attachments are already kind of fragile and a frequent source of 
> inventory loss as it is.
>
>> so yes in any case that llGiveInventory needs to make a new asset, 
>> but I believe that unless you're giving a no-copy object, a new asset 
>> isn't created by llGiveInventory, just a new reference to the 
>> existing asset.
>
> Even modifiable assets like boxes?
As soon as a copy-reference of an asset is modified, it forks and 
becomes a new asset.

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