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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:39:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: reference counting.. continued.. 
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0406091124120.57882-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:
>
>There are several goals that need to be kept in mind.

Please, whatever you do, show that your API will deal with the
refcounting of struct tty.  Pay particular attention to the
sysctl function which makes the difference between a CS-101
assignment and the real world.

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