document that the pipe fo_stat routine doesn't need locks because it's

a read operation.

Requested by: rwatson

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c b/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c
index c79f9ec..11ab6d1 100644
--- a/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c
+++ b/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c
@@ -1211,6 +1211,10 @@ pipe_poll(fp, events, cred, td)
 	return (revents);
 }
 
+/*
+ * We shouldn't need locks here as we're doing a read and this should
+ * be a natural race.
+ */
 static int
 pipe_stat(fp, ub, td)
 	struct file *fp;