Sending the proto files for review to unblcok the server team

base/scoped_ptr.h

Index: base/scoped_ptr.h
diff --git a/base/scoped_ptr.h b/base/scoped_ptr.h
index 88ee41be94d5b8b880a6bb0c4ad95022b7425952..5d52dd1482f7c070b795f961668ea7af49db672a 100644
--- a/base/scoped_ptr.h
+++ b/base/scoped_ptr.h
@@ -122,6 +122,20 @@ class scoped_ptr {
     return retVal;
   }
 
+  // Gets a pointer to the pointer.
+  // Useful in case where we need to pass this pointer to pointer to 
+  // a function and the function fills the pointer.
+  // If pointer_to were unavailable then we would have to 
+  // do some thing like: C* p; GetMeTheObject(&p); scoped_ptr sp(p);
+  // With this we can just call GetMeTheObject(sp.pointer_to())
+  C** pointer_to() {
+    CHECK(ptr_ == NULL);// we could do a reset here which would release 
+                        // pointer but cause subtle bugs difficult to track 
+                        //  down. So instead crash right away.
+
+    return &ptr_;
+  }
+
  private:
   C* ptr_;