Re: fstat broken ?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:38:01 +0100
In message <84dead72050316202564c386b2_at_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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Received on Thu Mar 17 2005 - 06:38:04 UTC

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