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diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst index ec4c6760062..aec0e4b0135 100644 --- a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst +++ b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/fib20/graphs.rst @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ The many to one relationship between child and parent means that the lifetime of parent object must extend to the lifetime of its children. If the control plane removes a parent object before its children, then the parent must remain, in an **incomplete** state, until the children are themselves removed. Likewise if a child -is created before its parent, the parent is completed in an *incomplete* state. These +is created before its parent, the parent is created in an *incomplete* state. These incomplete objects are needed to maintain the graph dependencies. Without them when -the parent is added finding the affected children would be search through many +the parent is added finding the affected children would require a search through many databases for those children. To extend the lifetime of parents all children thereof hold a **lock** on the parent. This is a simple reference count. Children then follow the add-or-lock/unlock semantics for finding a parent, as opposed to a malloc/free. |