On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:13:23PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:

 > The idea is excellent. The name, however, er, sucks :).
 > It doesn't fit the style of the existing mbuf code at all.
 > (to me  sounds rather   Linux-like).
 > One alternative that (imho) fits a lot better is m_copyup().

Yah, I'm not married to the name ... I could change it, and your
suggestion seems fine.

 > Technically: how does it compare to how other *BSD's handle the issue?

No other BSD for which I have access to the source handles this in
the upper layers at all.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>