From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 31 16: 8:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99B637B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:08:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1108O926986; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:08:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102010008.f1108O926986@harmony.village.org> To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-disk.c Cc: arch@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:03:00 PST." References: Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:08:24 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message John Baldwin writes: : during boot. One thing that Mike Smith would like to do (or so he has : told me) is to have aa env top-level sysctl node that mapped any names : below it to equivalent kernel environment variables, which would require : some subtle changes to the way sysctl works, but nothing too drastic. I'd like to see that as well. I'd also like to see the hints settable after boot so that you can tweak things. But they are close to sysctls in many ways (except for the API for getting the data). One problem is that sysctl is readable by the whole world and root can write anything. This is both too permissive and too strict. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message