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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:33:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, abial@webgiro.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modules and sysctl tree 
Message-ID:  <199912112333.SAA78252@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com>
References:  <199912112149.NAA71033@bubba.whistle.com> <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com>

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<<On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:00:03 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> said:

> 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?

It's listening on a kernel notification socket.  (Implementation is an
exercise left for the reader, but there are already a few examples.)

-GAWollman

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