From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 27 9:28: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9E837BC3E for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA76361; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007271627.JAA76361@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: SysctlFS In-Reply-To: <200007270147.SAA16199@beastie.mckusick.com> from Kirk McKusick at "Jul 26, 2000 06:47:34 pm" To: Kirk McKusick Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: abial@webgiro.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk McKusick wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:45:10 +0200 > From: Adrian Chadd > To: Andrzej Bialecki > Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: SysctlFS > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been tweaking the sysctls here and there for some time > > now, and I'd like to see what is the current opinion on > > implementing sysctl tree as a filesystem. Most of the work > > I've done with dynamic sysctls is very similar to what > > happens with filesystem. Also, filesystem model allows for > > much more fine-grained access control. > > > > If you are still interested in doing this, see `man kernfs' > which is a prototype of a filesystem designed to show (and > in some cases modify) kernel information. > > Kirk McKusick Andrezj, You might want to talk to Kelly Yancey as well. I know he has a nearly-finished implementation of sysctlfs lying around. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message