Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:51:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. Message-ID: <199812302051.MAA05699@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:48:12 %2B0100." <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> 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
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