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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: Need review - patch for socket locking and ref counting
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how does it cope with the old
"unix domain socket being passed across itself" case?


(I'm guessing it's references on the pcb that are tricky there and not
references on the sockets)


On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     This patch adds a reference count to the socket structure
>     and cleans up & encapulates the API calls.  I do not yet
>     attempt to use sxlocks to lock the socket structure (to allow
>     us to multi-thread the network stack), but that is the
>     direction I am headed.
> 


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