Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:11:50 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dynamic vs static sysctls? Message-ID: <43114.979629110@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:45:35 PST." <200101152345.PAA22257@beastie.mckusick.com>
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In message <200101152345.PAA22257@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick writes: > No one I know wants to use sysctl instead of getsysctlbyname afaik, > however, I would like to know if my opinions are the what we're > aiming for. > >I want >to do one call to sysctlnametomib (a new, but obviously trivial >function) to return the numeric mib, and then use that mib on all >the subsequent sysctl calls. As new-sysctl "designer" I think this is a good idea. It's a trivial thing to implement, so are there any warm and able bodies who want to try their hands at it and send the patch to me for review ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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