From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 12:33: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0337D37B401; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:33:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.chesapeake.net (chesapeake.net [205.130.220.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3401F43E77; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Received: from localhost (jroberson@localhost) by mail.chesapeake.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9SKWxK26594; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:32:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jroberson@chesapeake.net) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:32:59 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson To: Terry Lambert Cc: John Baldwin , Joe Marcus Clarke , , Nate Lawson Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes In-Reply-To: <3DBD9AD8.1CE671F9@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20021028152827.X62100-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > Yes. This means that you don't need to even look at v_tag to see > > if it is a UFS vnode or not. What does libgtop want with > > device and inode numbers anways? Does it actually do anything > > useful with them or does it just print them somewhere? Is a user > > going to care if the inode number was obtained from the vnode > > or if we groveled in the internals of UFS to find it? > > The user will, if they try to use "find -inum" to identify the > file name associated with it, since the vnode number is useless > for this purpose, and the inode number is not... particularly > if the information is being obtained from a log file. > Terry is right. It needs to be the same inode number that is reported by stat and getdirents. It's unfortunate that you can't do a getattr or stat based on the address of the vnode. I have actually used and relied on this behavior in the past. Not specifically with gtop though. Cheers, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message