From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 21:11:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10970 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10949 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 21:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02257; Sun, 3 May 1998 23:11:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805040411.XAA02257@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support kernfs? In-Reply-To: <199805040200.TAA17563@hub.freebsd.org> from Stan Brown at "May 3, 98 10:00:37 pm" To: stanb@awod.com (Stan Brown) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 23:11:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stan Brown said: > I am playing around with an OpenBSD system on a HP300, and I just > discovered kernfs. Does FreeBSD support such a neat feature? > > For those of you that don't recognize this it's anothe psuedo > filesystem like profs, this one lets you look at various kernel > paramters. > Most of the interesting parameters are available with sysctl on FreeBSD. That decision got made early on, due to the functional overlap between sysctl (mib type mgmt) and kernfs (filesystem namespace.) Supporting both schemes completely *would* be nice. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message