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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 ?