* Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> [010315 16:14] wrote:
> At 06:57 15/03/01 -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> > And shared memory has all the interlocking problems we want
> > to avoid.
>
> I suspect that if we keep per-backend data in a separate area, then we
> don;t need locking since there is only one writer. It does not matter if a
> reader gets an inconsistent view, the same as if you drop a few UDP packets.
No, this is completely different.
Lost data is probably better than incorrect data. Either use locks
or a copying mechanism. People will depend on the data returned
making sense.
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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
