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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:56:37 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Subject:   Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes
Message-ID:  <3DBDA485.CE7C731D@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20021028154205.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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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

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