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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:38:46 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Module parameters?  (WildWire DSL card driver)
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [001016 18:19] wrote:
> > > 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.

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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