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In message <84dead72050316202564c386b2@mail.gmail.com>, Joseph Koshy writes:
>> fstat(1) seems to be missbehaving on -current, no idea when this started.
>
>Its working on a -current of approx Feb 26th.  Just a data point.

fstat was digging around in the kernel after stuff it shouldn't ever
look at.

It needs to be rewritten to use a sensible sysctl API to find the
bits it need.

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