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Subject: Re: Examples of sysctl/sysctlbyname/sysctlnametomib?
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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Does anyone know of some documentation which would help explain how to
> walk the sysctl MIB tree for such things as dev.cpu?

This is intentionally undocumented, but you can find a fairly readable
code example in sysctl(1).  It is also well documented in code comments
in the kernel.

DES
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