Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:40:51 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <ak03@gte.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Why special handling of nfsclient kernel support in etc/rc? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011220113821.83441K-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20011220101025.ak03@gte.com>
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We need a better general solution for sysctls relating to this, I suspect. There are plenty of sysctls for dynamically loadable modules, and depending on when they are loaded, and when sysctl.conf gets processed, you can actually get fairly unpredictable behavior :-). That doesn't mean there's necessarily a problem, but it's worth considering whether there's a solution if it is a problem. Should there be a way to have sysctl's set as part of a module loading procedure? Do we have problems with any other common sysctls that might be set in /etc/sysctl.conf? Right now, some of the major components of the kernel that export sysctls aren't loadable as modules. But you could imagine more problems of this sort if they were. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote: > rc script tries to set sysctl variables which are only > available when NFS is present in the kernel. > > On 20-Dec-2001 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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