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From: Soeren Straarup <xride@x12.dk>
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Subject: Geom version/generation sysctl
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Hi

I'm looking for a way to have a version/generation sysctl value.
one way i could do this is:
sysct -b kern.geom.confxml > file_a

sleep for some time
sysct -b kern.geom.confxml > file_b
diff file_a file_b | wc -l

If the last line is zero then do nothing. And then repeat it.

What i'm looking for a cheap way to get around this, with a version/
generation number that i test on.

Would something like that be hard to implement?

vbr S=F8ren

Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
FreeBSD wannabe   | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R
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