Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 19:09:27 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bde@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mib.c Message-ID: <672.843930567@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Sep 1996 03:03:31 %2B1000." <199609281703.DAA00970@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199609281703.DAA00970@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>> - 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? No, only the sneaky "get-next" pseudo variable under the "sysctl" part of the tree. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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