From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 12:57:59 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 93C3637B401; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BB143E4A; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0064.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.64] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186GxO-0000EI-00; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:57:54 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBDA485.CE7C731D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:56:37 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Nate Lawson , current@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 John Baldwin wrote: > Sheesh, > does anyone actually _use_ libgtop against kernel core dumps? > If not then it shouldn't be groveling around in the kernel > fondling implementation details. Instead, it should be using > stat(2), or at the worst using a sysctl to get xvnode structures. As an alternative suggestion, how about moving away from having only data interfaces for useful information, so this is never an issue, ever again? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message