Re: net/socket.c:net_family[] handling question

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Hello!

> (sock_register/unregister()) and readers - sock_create(). Is there a
> reason why one can't just use read/write spinlocks for this?

sock_create() sleeps.

When this part was written, rw semaphores still did not exist.
It could be replaced with rw semaphore.

Alexey

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