Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:22:39 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: bforget and protected buffers |
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Hi,
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:16:05 +0200 (CEST), Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> said:
> Shound't we also check if the buffer was protected before put it on the > freelist?
No, ramdisk buffers are allocated on demand and freed on demand: it is the bforget action of dropping protected buffers which performs that freeing.
--Stephen
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