From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 01:50:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1655A16A420 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:50:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [69.17.104.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C6E43D53 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:50:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [69.17.104.113]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7C1nrvu044574; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:49:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:49:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Julian Elischer In-Reply-To: <42FBC017.6050000@elischer.org> Message-ID: <20050811214919.B59089@sasami.jurai.net> References: <200508111813.j7BIDeFP055360@sora.hank.home> <42FBC017.6050000@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (sasami.jurai.net [69.17.104.113]); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Sergey Uvarov , Dirk GOUDERS Subject: Re: preferable way to control kernel module X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:50:19 -0000 On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Julian Elischer wrote: > In the past, I've used a sysctl to communicate out the syscall number. > > you only need to do the syscall once, > and it confirms to the program that the syscall is correctly installed. Why not just use a sysctl period? Think of it as "syscall by name". -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00