Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:55:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 63016 for review Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041012063522.55701K-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200410112126.i9BLQlCu093658@repoman.freebsd.org>
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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
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