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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:47:58 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/fdesc fdesc_vnops.c
Message-ID:  <20000628104758.Y275@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000627223423.H20702@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 10:34:24PM -0500
References:  <200006272246.PAA76896@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000627223423.H20702@holly.calldei.com>

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* Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> [000627 20:41] wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 27, 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > alfred      2000/06/27 15:46:36 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/miscfs/fdesc     fdesc_vnops.c 
> >   Log:
> >   by changing the logic here we can support dynamic additions of new
> >   filetypes.
> 
> +
> +               default:        
>                         error = fo_stat(fp, &stb, ap->a_p);
>                         if (error == 0) {
>                                 VATTR_NULL(vap);
> -                               if (fp->f_type == DTYPE_KQUEUE)
> +                               /* XXX Fake it! */
> +                               if (fp->f_type != DTYPE_PIPE && fp->f_type != DTYPE_SOCKET)
>                                         vap->va_type = VFIFO;
> 
>    This has bad style (way past 80 columns) and it just does not
> make sense.  This doesn't make it any easier to add new file
> types, and you're just hiding the DTYPE_KQUEUE, DTYPE_PIPE and
> DTYPE_SOCKET cases inside a default: handler.  Are all new file
> types going to be FIFOs?
> 
>    What you should really do is ensure that any new file type
> returns proper stat information.  I'm tempted to say that ones
> that don't should be treated as VNON, rather than VFIFO, from a
> design perspective.

so basically change:
vap->va_type = VFIFO;

to:
vap->va_type = VNON;

and fix the long line?

-Alfred


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