On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:00:56PM +0200, Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> First of all, let me say that Im newbie with these topics, 
> I only know a bit about mbufs, but I dont understand how
> can an application trim away the refcount if the size is
> MCLBYTES = 2040 - sizeof(refcount).
> 
> Don't this limit the room which an app. can write ?

 No.  It just changes it.  Also, it's not the application trimming away
 anything, and the size is not 2040, it's 2048. :-)

 FWIW, the application has no idea about mbufs or clusters.  These are
 buffers and structures only the kernel knows about.

> Thanks.
> 
> JFRH

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