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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:00:03 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        abial@webgiro.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modules and sysctl tree 
Message-ID:  <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:49:16 PST." <199912112149.NAA71033@bubba.whistle.com> 

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> In other words, it's not a problem specific to KLD's ..  but
> it's still a problem :-)

Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree
regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become
aware that the sysctl space has changed?  The same holds true for a
dynamic /dev, of course, though one assumes one can at least hack a
solution with devfs where you stat the directory and compare its
current mod time with a saved one, only walking the directory if you
see a change.  I don't see any kind of mechanism for doing this
with sysctl, even as a gross hack.

- Jordan


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