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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:38:01 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fstat broken ? 
Message-ID:  <5082.1111045081@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:25:25 GMT." <84dead72050316202564c386b2@mail.gmail.com> 

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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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