svn commit: r232335 - head/share/man/man9
Sergey Kandaurov
pluknet at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 1 12:30:58 UTC 2012
Author: pluknet
Date: Thu Mar 1 12:30:57 2012
New Revision: 232335
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/232335
Log:
Refine r232333 [1] and put note about ifnet refcount caller responsibility.
Spotted by: gavin [1]
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9
Modified: head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 Thu Mar 1 12:16:00 2012 (r232334)
+++ head/share/man/man9/ifnet.9 Thu Mar 1 12:30:57 2012 (r232335)
@@ -1159,8 +1159,11 @@ Return a reference-counted (via
.Vt ifnet
pointer for the interface named
.Fa name .
-This is a preferred function over
+This is the preferred function over
.Fn ifunit .
+The caller is responsible for releasing the reference with
+.Fn if_rele
+when it is finished with the ifnet.
.It Fn ifioctl
Process the ioctl request
.Fa cmd ,
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