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On Tue, 8 May 2007, David Miller wrote:

> I'm just reading over the code to figure out what to type to you, you
> could read the code too it's not very complicated :-)

I have read it numerous times and my conclusion is that it uses the 
descriptors for that purpose. But Matt claims they are not necessary. So I 
am just trying to figure out how one can get to that conclusion.