Re: [AOLSERVER] nsv vs. ns_cache vs. ns_share

[Rob Mayoff]

+---------- On Sep 10, Jerry Asher said:
> I'm not sure.  It's true that the writer shouldn't just free the table -- I
> guess that readers need to refcount it (and unrefcount it),

You cannot, in C, atomically modify a reference count in memory.  It
might be possible to do so from assembler on some platforms, but a
portable implementation must use a lock.