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In message <20070708113624.C13758@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>While Andre's proposed goal of eliminating static sysctl nodes for 8.0 is 
>laudable, a casual glimpse run found 261 references to top-level CTL_ 
>constants in src outside of the kernel, so there's quite a bit of work to be 
>done, [...]

Nothing that couldn't be emulated, either in libraries or a kernel-shim.

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