Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 20:38:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats Message-ID: <199911050438.UAA01327@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Nov 1999 20:10:21 PST." <19991104201021.A2302@home.com>
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> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: > > > Can a loadable module, say a network driver register variables with > > > sysctl ? Can sysctl itself be made a loadable module ? As for the speed, > > > > a.) Yes. > > I don't see any examples in sys/modules. The SYSCTL_INT macros eventually > expands to DATA_SET which puts certain data in a different ELF section. You don't do anything magic at all; it's handled invisibly by the kernel linker. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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