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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:35:42 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        m.ehinger@ltur.de, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl_proc calls handler twice 
Message-ID:  <11638.1124199342@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:17:21 %2B1000." <20050816221033.C47830@delplex.bde.org> 

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In message <20050816221033.C47830@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>     Only the last 2 of these calls reach the handler.  Proc handlers are
>     only special here in that they are more specialized than the integer
>     handlers.

Strictly speaking it is the other way arond: since integer handlers
are implemented in terms of proc handlers, it follows that proc handlers
cannot be more specialized than integer handlers.

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