From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Sep 17 17: 5:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3169137B422 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.17]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id JAA09310; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:05:40 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39C55C24.11A52A46@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:04:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, sjr@home.net Subject: Re: sysctl on boot. References: <200009171904.NAA24354@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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