From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 29 15:25:49 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F6215658; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 15:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA41118; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:25:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 18:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199911292325.SAA41118@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , chris@calldei.com, Bill Fumerola , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dan Moschuk , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h In-Reply-To: <99Nov30.101104est.40338@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <19991129160908.J2233@holly.calldei.com> <23833.943913718@critter.freebsd.dk> <99Nov30.101104est.40338@border.alcanet.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: > I have been looking at this. What I want to do is expand > struct sysctl_oid to include a `pointer' to the (non-resident) > sysctl description (and a pointer to the loaded filename to > support sysctl's in KLDs). A new "staff-function" (eg > sysctl({0,6,...},...)) would return the description "pointer" > and the filename. I think it may be easier and more efficient to simply leave ``bread crumbs'' in the non-loaded section, and have a kvm_mkdb-style utility turn them into a database. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message