Subject: Re: The demise of DEV_BSIZE
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/12/1999 11:09:12
On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> In order for a vnode to exist *at all*, it must have been opened at some
> point.
That is not correct. Doing a lookup on a path causes a vnode to come into
existance.
For instance, consider the userland call stat("/dev/cd0", &mystatstruct);
There's no call to any open routine in there.
Take care,
Bill