On 10-May-01 Terry Lambert wrote:
> Seigo Tanimura wrote:
>> A quick and hopefully efficient solution to those problems is to
>> fhold() struct file's first, then enter polling loop. That seems much
>> cheaper than to work on free()ing a vnode or a socket with holding a
>> process lock, provided that struct filedesc and file are protected
>> properly (and we have to do it anyway).
> 
> Let me once again point out that fhold(), like crhold(),
> should act as an l-valued function that takes an r-value
> as an "argument", as in:
> 
>       a = crhold(b);
>       q = fhold(r);
> etc. (for all such functions).
>
> [ snip ]

I agree with all this, I just haven't had the time to sit down and do it.

> -- Terry

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