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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:09:40 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, Tiwei Bie <btw@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Finish the task 'sysctl reporting current working directory'
Message-ID:  <20141103090940.GI53947@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20141103084129.GF29497@dft-labs.eu>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:41:29AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 04:14:06PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > why are you using a fixed sysctl MIB number?
> > I thought we were moving towards dynamic sysctls when we add new ones.
> > 
> 
> We are? KERN_PROC_* seems to be a complete list with SIGTRAMP added last
> year.
> 
> I guess we can do it with OID_AUTO, if there will be any need we can
> switch it back to a static var.

I am very curious how would you make kern.proc.cwd auto, while
still using kern.proc leaf.  And more important question is, why ?



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