From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 15:33:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 392A314BE2 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:33:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA78252; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:33:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:33:19 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199912112333.SAA78252@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Archie Cobbs , abial@webgiro.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modules and sysctl tree In-Reply-To: <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199912112149.NAA71033@bubba.whistle.com> <91986.944949603@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree > regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become > aware that the sysctl space has changed? It's listening on a kernel notification socket. (Implementation is an exercise left for the reader, but there are already a few examples.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message