Re: copy constructor for sockets

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

tmoran@acm.org writes:

> >I have it stuck in my head that Finalize can get called more than
> >once. Which would make a mockery of (simple-minded) reference counting
>   If each copy of the socket points to the single shared ref count
> (Rep_Type here), then Finalize may be called as often as you want on the
> socket:  the first time it's called it decrements the shared reference
> count, frees the Rep_Type if the count is now zero, and nulls the socket's
> pointer.  Subsequent calls on the same socket see that the pointer is null
> and there's nothing to do.

Of course, thanks Tom & Matt!