Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:11:31 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M_RDONLY: review & comment Message-ID: <200011150911.aa97224@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:07:46 PST." <20001115010746.E29448@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> Modules using external clusters that point to some internal state > should disallow unload until all such references go away. Exactly - I haven't checked if they do yet. > The char * may need to be allocated via MALLOC and leaked when the > module is unloaded if mbufs without external storage are to be > tagged with a char *. If the module can't be unloaded until the mbufs have gone away then it is safe to free the string. It may be a moot point anyway, 'cos I think Bosko prefers using an int for the type and he's the boss ;-) David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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