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RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-2.61)[ip: (-9.72), ipnet: 2a00:1450::/32(-1.73), asn: 15169(-1.50), country: US(-0.08)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:16:59 -0000 Hi Ed, > Ed Schouten wrote: > > Alfonso Siciliano : > > I' m currently working on a library called "libsysctl" which will > > provide a C API to wrap kern_sysctl.c undocumented interface, build > > mib-entry, entries-list and mib-tree in userspace and then to do > > the work that /sbin/sysctl currently does. > > Great work! Thanks > This would have been nice to have when I implemented the > Prometheus metrics exporter for sysctl: > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.sbin/prometheus_sysctl_exporter/prometheus_sysctl_exporter.c?view=markup I thought libsysctl exactly to help to write programs like "prometheus_sysctl_exporter" Regards, Alfonso --- Alfonso S. Siciliano http://alfix.gitlab.io