Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We are *not* going create a separate ref count field just to track
> socket queue references, because this breaks the file descriptor passing
> semantics...
There is an f_msgcount field already but isn't used for the sort of
half-baked hack at the problem which you are railing against :-)
> There is no simple solution to the garbage collection problem. That's
> why the current inefficient, slow, spegetti that is the current GC code
> is still being used. We may be able to make it more efficient, but short
> of some genius spending a long time figuring out the perfect solution
> there aren't going to be any rewrites.
>From looking at the GC literature the best known solution to this
problem is the one I posted earlier today.
Tony.
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