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Date:      Wed, 01 Jan 1997 17:34:53 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: struct file locking 
Message-ID:  <199701020134.RAA13418@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 09:24:38 %2B1100." <199701012224.JAA06593@profane.iq.org> 

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>In the socket structure I intend to create a back-pointer to
>originating struct file's->u_cred. What do I need to do to insure
>these last two structures are reliably locked and in memory?

   See crhold() in sys/ucred.h and crfree() in sys/kern/kern_prot.c. They
manage the cr_ref reference count.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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