From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 6:11:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A4437B71E for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 137HcV-000IRA-00; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:11:11 +0700 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:11:11 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Dynamic sysctls, next round In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > You can create and delete new sysctl_oid's at run time. There can be > multiple users of subtrees (the oids keep a reference count). There is > also a framework to help you keep track of already created oids (called > 'context' - thanks to dfr for suggesting this!). Dynamic sysctls make entire sysctl subsystem more or less complete. I'd also like the idea of sysctl context which can be considered as a "handle" to the dynamically created subtree. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message