From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 17 21:42:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9ED16A4CE; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:42:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (pimout2-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A344E43D2F; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:42:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (adsl-67-124-50-20.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.124.50.20])i9HLgPxQ169726; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:42:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4172E741.7080508@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:42:25 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Vlad cc: scottl@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Marc UBM Bocklet Subject: Re: [BETA7-panic] sodealloc(): so_count 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:42:38 -0000 I.e., it sounds like a > reference count issue due to sockets using a slightly aberrant reference > model. I'll try to come up with a workaround sometime in the next 12-24 > hours, and hopefully also a proper fix. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research At the risk of sounding like a broken record, if we had a central policy on how reference counts were done, and library/include support for doing it we would be some distance ahead fo where we are now.. There are too many examples of "aberrant reference model".