Reference-counting API

Jan Grant · *nix forums beginner Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 10

Lost the initial message, but as I recall the "consensus" was:
- reference managing calls for refcounts that need a lock
- do it by hand for structures that are protected by a mutex

Might I suggest* that an API for the second set of calls would still be
useful? They might be a bunch of trivial macros, but having explicit
refcounting "calls" are: easier to find; document the use better (it's a
refcount, but we hold a mutex on it already); easier to instrument if
required.

Cheers,
jan

* no, I don't have the patch

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