On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 17:45 -0400, lml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > So what is the real purpose of using reference counter? It cannot protect other > members in the object. Looks like it is only used to check if the object needed > to be freed (when the counter is 0)? right? Can you give an example? Yes. More specifically, you could look at it as ensuring that the object is _not_ freed until no one has a reference to it any more. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
