Luke Mewburn wrote:
> > The primary reason being that vn_stat() is used outside of fileops
> > context couple of times (like in other *stat(2) calls) and it didn't
> > seem right to push a struct file * there.
> 
> so why not follow what freebsd did and put a vn_statfile() in as the
> fileops fo_stat function, which is a wrapper to vn_stat()?
> 
> as it appears that we were inspired by freebsd for this change, i
> can't see why we're gratuitiously incompatible...

Yeah, the addition of stat function was inspired by FreeBSD, but I
didn't look at how exactly they dealt with vn_stat().
I'll do it way you propose, I just didn't realized it's possible
to do it this way.

Jaromir
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