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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

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