"Greg A. Woods" writes:
- Expressions as simple as that above also occur in a bazillion other
- places in the whole code-base -- it's just an integer mask and test.

	Yup, I'm aware of that.. Which is why I was so suprised
to see the truth path being taken when it was obvious it should
be false..

	Now, it's entirely possible that I was remembering
something from the FreeBSD/alpha system...

	All the more annoying, since changing the clients from
using soft nfs mounts to hard (non-interruptable) mounts, nary a
vnode starvation has been seen.  Running the same kernel.

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