Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 18:45:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sysctl's as an FS Message-ID: <199901100245.SAA02550@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:35:42 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901100029410.26843-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> Hello, > > I'm not sure if this idea has been already discussed... It occured to me > that since we need some dynamic approach to the sysctl mechanism (which > presently is static, constructed at compile time), especially when KLDs > should be able to insert/delete whole subtrees in it, why not reimplement > it in similar way to procfs? Because procfs' design is not adequately dynamic, unfortunately. I looked at this back when the syctlfs discussion came up. I also started on a generic meta-filesystem framework as a learning exercise, but I doubt I will finish it anytime soon. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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