Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: stanb@awod.com (Stan Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support kernfs? Message-ID: <199805040411.XAA02257@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199805040200.TAA17563@hub.freebsd.org> from Stan Brown at "May 3, 98 10:00:37 pm"
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Stan Brown said: > I am playing around with an OpenBSD system on a HP300, and I just > discovered kernfs. Does FreeBSD support such a neat feature? > > For those of you that don't recognize this it's anothe psuedo > filesystem like profs, this one lets you look at various kernel > paramters. > Most of the interesting parameters are available with sysctl on FreeBSD. That decision got made early on, due to the functional overlap between sysctl (mib type mgmt) and kernfs (filesystem namespace.) Supporting both schemes completely *would* be nice. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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