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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Subject: Re: crash (in networking code?) 
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>    The problem might be fixed with the attached diff. I have also committed
> this in rev 1.37 of in_pcb.c.
> 
> -DG
Is the aim of this change, to move the MALLOC out of the splnet()
region?

I would have thought this was safe.  What is the failure mode? (I am not
saying it's not a problem, just that I don't understand it..) 

julian