From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Feb 5 20: 7:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E926837B416; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:07:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g1647Di12953; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:07:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1647CL34438; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:07:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:06:51 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020205.210651.35502362.imp@village.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: msmith@hub.freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting sysctl(8)'s in rc.conf From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3C60A776.F4B0F660@mindspring.com> References: <20020205191105.A25310@hub.freebsd.org> <3C60A776.F4B0F660@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <3C60A776.F4B0F660@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes: : I would like to see several things: : : 1) Tunables treated as an environment They already are. : 2) No tunables hidden from sysctl space Only those tunables that are specifically exported to sysctl space are not hidden. : 3) Seperation of tunables name space by module, : rather than by function, if such modules are : optional That's already done too, but hints provide an even better mechanism because that can be done on a per instance basis. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message