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Subject: Re: Accessing sysctls from kernel
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On Thursday 26 February 2004 08:10 am, Ivan Voras wrote:
> In sys/sys/sysctl.h I see function kernel_sysctlbyname() that looks (to
> me) to be intended for accessing sysctl values from kernel, but for it's
> first parameter it requires a struct thread *td.
>
> What should I pass to it? (I'm calling it from inside a screensaver module)

You can always just use curthread, it is never NULL.

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