From c6d9ed1f35e6dc270fc7079dd1aee8e9d53a99e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scribu <scribu@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:23:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove archaic reference return in get_children(). Props
 filosofo. Fixes #12372

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@16667 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/post.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/post.php b/wp-includes/post.php
index 89ce0f38e8..e80250deb9 100644
--- a/wp-includes/post.php
+++ b/wp-includes/post.php
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ function _wp_relative_upload_path( $path ) {
  * @param string $output Optional. Constant for return type, either OBJECT (default), ARRAY_A, ARRAY_N.
  * @return array|bool False on failure and the type will be determined by $output parameter.
  */
-function &get_children($args = '', $output = OBJECT) {
+function get_children($args = '', $output = OBJECT) {
 	$kids = array();
 	if ( empty( $args ) ) {
 		if ( isset( $GLOBALS['post'] ) ) {
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ function &get_children($args = '', $output = OBJECT) {
 	update_post_cache($children);
 
 	foreach ( $children as $key => $child )
-		$kids[$child->ID] =& $children[$key];
+		$kids[$child->ID] = $children[$key];
 
 	if ( $output == OBJECT ) {
 		return $kids;