Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:22:03 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need review - patch for socket locking and ref counting Message-ID: <20011114192203.H13393@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111141712380.4779-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:17:00PM -0800 References: <200111150015.fAF0Flb09186@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111141712380.4779-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> > This patch adds a reference count to the socket structure
> > and cleans up & encapulates the API calls. I do not yet
> > attempt to use sxlocks to lock the socket structure (to allow
> > us to multi-thread the network stack), but that is the
> > direction I am headed.
* Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [011114 19:20] wrote:
> how does it cope with the old
> "unix domain socket being passed across itself" case?
>
>
> (I'm guessing it's references on the pcb that are tricky there and not
> references on the sockets)
That's handled in the "struct file" handling code.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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