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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Change 63016 by peter@peter_melody on 2004/10/11 21:26:18
> 
> 	Make the i386 sysctl binary work on amd64.  This covers
> 	most of the visible fields.  Things like kern.proc.* and the
> 	netstat structs are a nightmare.  I think I'm going to cry.

I wonder if it would make sense to convert 32-bit 6.x to use 64-bit-happy
datastructures for the xfoo versions of the structures.  We go through an
externalization stage for all x structures anyway, and likely bzero() the
structure, so 32-bit binaries would truncate the kernel values, which
result in often useful numbers.  Byte order might or might not be an
issue, I suppose. 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research