On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 14:15, John Baldwin wrote:
> Well, here's the thing. If libgtop is intended to be used only with live
> kernels then it might be a better idea to use xvnode's that you get with
> from the kernel. Alternatively, you could grab the inode and dev number
> the same way the sysctl handler does:
>
> switch (vp->v_type) {
> case VREG:
> case VDIR:
> case VLNK:
> xvn[n].xv_dev = vp->v_cachedfs;
> xvn[n].xv_ino = vp->v_cachedid;
>
> i.e., you could look at those members of struct vnode instead of trying
> to dig into the details of a UFS inode structure in v_data. This
> would remove the need to look at v_tag at all.I can certainly do it this way, but would it be equivalent to the existing code? It doesn't seem like it would be. At least using the kvm_read method, we get similar behavior for both -stable and -CURRENT. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the current code is looking at UFS inodes, where as you're suggesting to look at generic vnodes. Joe > > -- > > John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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