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Date:      Mon, 18 May 1998 14:49:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   struct ifnet handling...
Message-ID:  <199805181849.OAA16636@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805181458.QAA07273@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
References:  <199805181458.QAA07273@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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<<On Mon, 18 May 1998 16:58:54 +0200 (MET DST), Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> said:

> While trying to optimise interface matches in the firewall code (see
> below), i noticed that there is no if_detach() call. This would be
> consistent with the absence of reference counts for the "struct
> ifnet" . Can i safely assume that this will continue to be true
> in the future ?

Yes, but keep in mind that it's still a bug (just not easy to fix).

-GAWollman

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