Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:58:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. Message-ID: <91883.915051506@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:51:26 PST." <199812302051.MAA05699@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In message <199812302051.MAA05699@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> In message <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: >> > >> >> Nutshell: Can anybody forsee the need to export symbol type to userland? >> >> >> >No, the obvious solution is to improve and expand the sysctl interface, >> >which already provides size and type information. >> >> It would be trivial to implement in a sysctl, and we can even do it >> as >> sysctl kern.nlist.val.avenrun >> sysctl kern.nlist.type.avenrun >> if you want to... > >Why not just use the current type/format specifier convention? It >works just fine for all the things it's currently being used for. Sure, I just pointed out the flexibility of sysctl. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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