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From: Tobias DiPasquale <codeslinger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: double call to ip_conntrack_put() ?
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:22:07 -0400
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On 4/18/05, Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net> wrote:
> What I found confusing initially was that "put" in "ip_conntrack_put"
> means "release" or "refcount--" instead of "write" or "store" which
> would have been my first guess.

In the Linux kernel sources, *_get() usually increments a reference
count on an object, and *_put() decrements it. This is a common naming
convention, although I can see how it could be confusing.

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