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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Subject: Re: getsysfd() patch #1 (Re: Virtual memory question) 
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<<On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:35:09 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said:

> We already have the infrastructure.  It's called 'struct fileops' and
> we've already added things to it, and need to add a couple more to fix
> some explicitly enumerated switches on file types.

Cool.  There's still a few things that would need to be hacked,
though.  Right now most of these system calls use getvnode(), and we
might need to come up with a more generic interface that still did the
right thing with locking.

-GAWollman


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