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+// Copyright 2020 The gVisor Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+// Package refs_vfs2 defines an interface for a reference-counted object.
+package refs_vfs2
+
+import (
+	"gvisor.dev/gvisor/pkg/context"
+)
+
+// RefCounter is the interface to be implemented by objects that are reference
+// counted.
+type RefCounter interface {
+	// IncRef increments the reference counter on the object.
+	IncRef()
+
+	// DecRef decrements the object's reference count. Users of refs_template.Refs
+	// may specify a destructor to be called once the reference count reaches zero.
+	DecRef(ctx context.Context)
+
+	// TryIncRef attempts to increment the reference count, but may fail if all
+	// references have already been dropped, in which case it returns false. If
+	// true is returned, then a valid reference is now held on the object.
+	TryIncRef() bool
+}