cvs commit: src/sys/sys _task.h

[Roman Kurakin]

Garrett Wollman wrote:

><<On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:03:16 -0700, Alfred Perlstein <alfred at FreeBSD.ORG> said:
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>>* Maxime Henrion <mux at freebsd.org> [040728 02:19] wrote:
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>>>Or have a struct ifnet for kernel and a struct xifnet for userland, as we
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>>That sounds more correct (xifnet).
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>No.  Everything that would legitimately be available in an xifnet
>structure is already made available through other interfaces.  The
>only reason programs might need to look at a struct ifnet is because
>they're mucking about in kernel memory, in which case they need the
>real one and not a "sanitized" version.  (This is why I moved struct
>ifnet to <net/if_var.h> in the first place.)
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Does these programs need entire structure, or it is possible for them to 
use truncated one?

rik

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