Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:59:45 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. Message-ID: <199812302359.QAA06821@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com> <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> >> 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... What about 'loadable' drivers that may have multiple symbols for multiple interfaces, ala network cards? kern.nlist.ed0.softc? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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