Module Name: src
Committed By: dholland
Date: Mon Aug 27 22:22:16 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/sys/sys: file.h
Log Message:
Fix lying comment; the point of the KERN_FILE2 sysctl, or much of it,
is to not expose struct file directly.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.83 -r1.84 src/sys/sys/file.h
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Modified files:
Index: src/sys/sys/file.h
diff -u src/sys/sys/file.h:1.83 src/sys/sys/file.h:1.84
--- src/sys/sys/file.h:1.83 Thu Nov 30 20:25:56 2017
+++ src/sys/sys/file.h Mon Aug 27 22:22:16 2018
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $NetBSD: file.h,v 1.83 2017/11/30 20:25:56 christos Exp $ */
+/* $NetBSD: file.h,v 1.84 2018/08/27 22:22:16 dholland Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -118,8 +118,12 @@ union file_data {
* Kernel file descriptor. One entry for each open kernel vnode and
* socket.
*
- * This structure is exported via the KERN_FILE and KERN_FILE2 sysctl
- * calls. Only add members to the end, do not delete them.
+ * This structure is exported via the KERN_FILE sysctl.
+ * Only add members to the end, do not delete them.
+ *
+ * Note: new code should not use KERN_FILE; use KERN_FILE2 instead,
+ * which exports struct kinfo_file instead; struct kinfo_file is
+ * declared in sys/sysctl.h and is meant to be ABI-stable.
*/
struct file {
off_t f_offset; /* first, is 64-bit */
