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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Module parameters?  (WildWire DSL card driver)
To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 01:57:25 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert),
	gcorcoran@lucent.com (Gary T. Corcoran), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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In-Reply-To: <20001016183846.G272@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Oct 16, 2000 06:38:46 PM
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> > > > Alternately, if the problem is lack of reference counting on
> > > > FreeBSD's part, and you therefore can't do the job on the
> > > > open, since you can't track closes aws they happen, only the
> > > > last clse, there are a couple of approaches:
> > > 
> > > FreeBSD has had that capability for over a year now.
> > > 
> > > /*
> > >  * Flags for d_flags.
> > >  */
> > > #define	D_TRACKCLOSE	0x80000		/* track all closes */
> > 
> > Under what circumstances is it permissable to _not_ set this bit?
> 
> When you want the old behavior.

Under what circumstances is it permissable to want the old behaviour?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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