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Date:      Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:50:21 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c 
Message-ID:  <560.843929421@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:43:46 PDT." <199609281543.IAA04613@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <199609281543.IAA04613@freefall.freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>bde         96/09/28 08:43:43
>
>  Modified:    sys/kern  kern_mib.c
>  Log:
>  Fixed bitrot in the read-only attribute:
>  - kern.maxproc and kern.maxprocperuid were read-only (and thus essentially
>    useless.  Apparently no one uses them).
>  - all the user sysctls were read-write (and thus it was possible for them
>    to be inconsistent with the authoritative fixed values in the library).

They would never be accessed in the kernel, they're only there as place-
holders in the name-space.

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