On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:23:58AM -0700, Rao, Nikhil wrote: > > Ok, I should have caught that :-( Another question - > Now that the PROC_LOCK on p is obtained the all_proc lock is released > and the function returns, at this point can't the proc get deallocated ? well.. thats why you hold the proc lock, isnt it? :)