From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 10 18:22:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07884 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (spain-20.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07867 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA03922; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:23:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:23:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Garrett Wollman cc: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KERNFS and MFS In-Reply-To: <199808110044.UAA11183@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > KERNFS urm... this works, why is not used/installed by default? > > Um, because it serves no useful function? > > It's mostly there as an example of what a simple but non-trivial > filesystem needs to implement. Yes, but it could be very useful. I for one would love to see kernfs as an extension of the sysctl interface. Suitable perhaps for sh scripts and the like. And actually it is kinda useful as-is. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message