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From: sar0@cbnewsl.att.com (stephen.a.rago)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: t_free before closing descriptor?
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.194632.9390@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 27 Jul 90 19:46:32 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.045439.19914@clark.uucp>
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In article <1990Jul25.045439.19914@clark.uucp>, ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda) writes:
> Pardon me if this is a dumb question, I'm trying to learn about
> streams/TLI on System V r3.2.  In my function (actually it's not mine,
> I'm porting smail3.1 to esix), I t_alloc a T_CALL structure.  I then
> t_connect, pop the timod module and push the tirdwr module.  Finally,
> the file descriptor is returned to the caller, which uses it to do
> whatever.  What I'm wondering is, can I t_free the T_CALL structure at
> the end of this function, even though the file descriptor will
> continue to be used?

Yes.