kernel newb -- read/write to a local file from in kernel

[Jeb Campbell]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In the spirit of education I won't tell you "how to" but only "where
> to look":  ktrace, coredumps and accounting all writes to files
> from the kernel.

Wow -- don't I feel stupid.

After 2 days of searching, I couldn't see the forest for the trees.
(and 4 hours of sleep doesn't help)

Thanks you for your time on this question and for all your other work on 
FreeBSD!

Jeb

(cc'ing the list for a record of my stupidity)