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From: "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@freebsd.org>
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I understand what you are saying. The only real other choice 
would be to copy out the entire cr_groups array. Do you know
if this copy would be more expensive then the mutex lock/unlock
associated with grabbing a reference to the ucred?

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Christian S.J. Peron
csjp@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD Committer