Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:40:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl's as an FS Message-ID: <199901100940.BAA04731@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:40:20 %2B1100." <199901100940.UAA03915@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >I'm not sure if this idea has been already discussed... It occured to me > >that since we need some dynamic approach to the sysctl mechanism (which > >presently is static, constructed at compile time), especially when KLDs > >should be able to insert/delete whole subtrees in it, why not reimplement > >it in similar way to procfs? > > It would just move the implementation difficulties. > > I think it was a mistake to have a separate namespace and interfaces for > sysctls, but this is hard to change now. Which namespace would you have preferred? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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