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Date:      Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:08:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      M Lyons <lyonsm@netbistro.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernfs/procfs questions...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604180430.570L-100000@newmail.netbistro.com>

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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> By the time you create a filter to do the conversions (using a more
> reasonable kernel binary interface), then you have yet another sysctl
> program to interpret your kernfs. :-). 

If written properly, you may instead have a useful, generic
structure-decoding tool that can also be used by other shell scripts for
different purposes in the future.  perl's unpack operator is but one
possible example of an interface for such a utility.



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