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To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:12:45 EDT."
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c 
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In message <20030728181050.D14210-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson wr
ites:
>On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> phk         2003/07/27 13:09:13 PDT
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/kern             vfs_syscalls.c
>>   Log:
>>   Pass the file descriptor index down to vn_open.
>
>Why?  Was this discussed on arch?

So that things like /dev/stream /dev/fd/* and similar can use a
less gruesome hack than today, and so that access to devices from
userland doesn't have to take the long tour through vnodes.


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