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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:11:50 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dynamic vs static sysctls? 
Message-ID:  <43114.979629110@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:45:35 PST." <200101152345.PAA22257@beastie.mckusick.com> 

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In message <200101152345.PAA22257@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick writes:

>	No one I know wants to use sysctl instead of getsysctlbyname afaik,
>	however, I would like to know if my opinions are the what we're
>	aiming for.
>
>I want
>to do one call to sysctlnametomib (a new, but obviously trivial
>function) to return the numeric mib, and then use that mib on all
>the subsequent sysctl calls. 

As new-sysctl "designer" I think this is a good idea.  It's a trivial
thing to implement, so are there any warm and able bodies who want 
to try their hands at it and send the patch to me for review ?

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