[PATCH 1/2] Generalised support for copy-on-write structures shared by threads.

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Mon May 4 05:03:57 UTC 2015


On 5/4/15 7:58 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: td_cowgen is much 
> preferable  with comment  "(k) generation of c.o.w. pointers."
>
>> +    u_int        td_cowgen;    /* (k) generation of c.o.w. 
>> pointers. */
>
> But there is a problem with the comment.  It doesn't do much more than
> echo the variable name with minor expansions and rearrangements. The
> only useful parts of it are "(k)" and "pointers".
cow is not immediately obvious to everyone.

>
> Bruce
>
>



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