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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 1996 03:03:31 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@FreeBSD.org, phk@critter.tfs.com
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c
Message-ID:  <199609281703.DAA00970@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>  - 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.

Oops.  I see that the can't be accessed by sysctl(2).  Are there other
access functions that walk in the places they hold?

Bruce



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