Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com> writes:
> As a tie breaker, what does FreeBSD do?

FreeBSD actually always returned the (not-refed) node.

> My instinct is we probably should return the node always.

Yes, it seems simpler always doing that.  And it will probably make
layer (or whoever is going to debug that) happier too.  I'll send a
patch that implements my original proposed choice c) tomorrow, after I
have gotten some sleep.

/assar