Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:04:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, sjr@home.net Subject: Re: sysctl on boot. Message-ID: <39C55C24.11A52A46@newsguy.com> References: <200009171904.NAA24354@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > A long term fix might be to give the kernel a memory so it can > initialize the sysctls from the get go. However, that's much harder > to pull off and a whole lot more work. > > Comments? Non-intialized sysctl's might be converted into hint.*, and used or not later. Of course, this results in a sort of memory leaking. And I'm not even sure we can add new kernel environment variables once booted. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net "I demand that my picture show a handsome face, even if it doesn't look like me." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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