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daniel_sobral@voga.com.br wrote:
> 
> Some time ago, when I asked about tsleep()ing in the kernel, someone told
> me to use a kernel process as backing process. I now need to take a closer
> look into this option. What source files do that?
> 
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral                      (8-DCS)
> Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br
> 
> Tagline:
>    * FreeBSD. Earth.

look for vfs_update() as an example..
it's started by the stuff at the top of the file.