From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 30 12:57:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00331 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles147.castles.com [208.214.165.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00324 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05699; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812302051.MAA05699@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Mike Smith , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:48:12 +0100." <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:51:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > > > >> Nutshell: Can anybody forsee the need to export symbol type to userland? > >> > >No, the obvious solution is to improve and expand the sysctl interface, > >which already provides size and type information. > > It would be trivial to implement in a sysctl, and we can even do it > as > sysctl kern.nlist.val.avenrun > sysctl kern.nlist.type.avenrun > if you want to... Why not just use the current type/format specifier convention? It works just fine for all the things it's currently being used for. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message