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Date:      Mon, 03 Jun 2002 15:47:25 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Race condition with M_EXT ref count?
Message-ID:  <3CFBF1FD.4DF1AED6@mindspring.com>
References:  <200206031913.g53JD7547163@arch20m.dellroad.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206031225070.43219-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020603203343.GM64510@elvis.mu.org>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [020603 12:41] wrote:
> > this is YET ANOTHER case for the Atomic reference counting ABI that
> > jhb has been talking about...
> 
> I was the initial person to request an atomic_t API.

I think the request count was non-atomically incremented by
a lot of people, around the same time.

If we had only had one at the time, we could assign the credit
for the request to have one, properly...

8-).

-- Terry

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