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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:47:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isofs/cd9660 cd9660_vfsops.c
Message-ID:  <200101241547.KAA61320@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101242229170.44683-100000@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <20010123163418.N26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101242229170.44683-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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<<On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:10:51 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> Unfortunately, most vfs and vnop interfaces including VFS_MOUNT() make
> it unclear that p == curproc by pretending to support arbitrary p's.

I believe the intent was (and Kirk can correct me if I'm wrong) that
curproc should one day be eliminated, and the `p' argument to many
kernel functions would be the only MI way to access the process
structure of the current process.  (Analogous to the way in which
post-4.3 BSD removed `u' as an alias for the current process's user
area.)  I don't think it was ever intended that these functions be
able to operate on arbitrary (non-running) processes.

-GAWollman



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