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Subject: Re: Timing issue with Dummynet on high kernel timer interrupt
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On 11/07/15 07:19, Bruce Evans wrote:
> I don't know if CTLFLAG_RWTUN with SYSCTL_PROC() actually works for all
> types, but it is used with CTLFLAG_STRING for kern.corefile.  This is
> another bogus undocumented tunable.  It is better documented as a sysctl
> than most since it is old so it is documented in sysctl(8).  It is not
> documented as a tunable there of course.  It is also not documented as
> a tunable in core(5).

Hi,

SYSCTL_PROC() works with RWTUN from /boot/loader.conf, as long as the 
procedure callback handles early calls during boot.

--HPS