copyCGLContextForPixelFormat

FROM : Richard Somers
DATE : Sat Feb 02 23:25:15 2008

CAOpenGLLayer has a copyCGLContextForPixelFormat: method which the 
documentation states "allocates a new context with a null share 
context".

So we make a new context based on the supplied pixel format. So why 
does this method contain the word "copy"?

Regards,
Richard