Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > Is there any good reason that fstat(1) needs kvm(3)? Is it viable to > offer its functionality with sysctl(3), in particular in struct kinfo_file?
The only reason that fstat wasn't converted to use sysctl way back when was time/motivation. I couldn't think of a simple extensible way of dealing with N file systems and adding N different sysctls meant that it never got done. Go for it :) Good luck. Cheers, Simon.
