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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406091101160.57882-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
>             Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> : 
> : 
> : On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> : 
> : > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406091051580.57882-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
> : > lian Elischer writes:
> : > 
> : > >As I've said before and will continue to say..
> : > >"We need a more formal model of dealing with reference counts"
> : > >
> : > >i.e. 
> : > >
> : > >we should get a set of reference counting primatives and make it WELL
> : > >DOCUMENTED as to how they should be used..
> : > 
> : > And as others have replied:  It is seldom worth it from code clarity
> : > or performance wise.
> : 
> : few have replied in that way..
> : most have agreed that it is worth persuing..
> 
> We should document how to do refcounting.  Either from a atomic point
> of view (which has issues) or from the mutex point of view (which also
> has issues).
> 
> I think that everyone agrees on that.
> 

certainly. Documentation of acceptable coding practices is almost as
good as having code to do it..
(as long as people can find the document)

> Warner
>