From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 18 12:49:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13908 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 12:49:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13878 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 12:48:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16636; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:49:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:49:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199805181849.OAA16636@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: struct ifnet handling... In-Reply-To: <199805181458.QAA07273@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199805181458.QAA07273@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message