Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:23:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.ipc.maxsockbuf vs reality? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007231620310.37411-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20000723153345.P13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Also, if sb_max is to remain a read/write sysctl we'll need to cap > it so that kern.ipc.maxsockbuf is always true and we don't allow > sysadmins to shoot thier feet by scaling it too high or low, the > only problem is that I can't for the life of me figure out the > magic to keep sb_max (kern.ipc.maxsockbuf) as a ulong (which it > should be, instead of an int) as well as provide a filtering > function. > You'de have to use SYSCTL_PROC with a fmt of "LU". Just let the handler do the sanity checking on sysctl writes. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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