Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:57:27 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Mattias.Gronlund@sa.erisoft.se (Mattias Gronlund) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl interface Message-ID: <17278.820223847@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 23:20:45 %2B0100." <9512282220.AA05120@sws021.sa.erisoft.se>
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> > The entire sysctl area is still being reconsidered and rearchitected
> > quite a bit, and this particular interface should >>>NOT<<< be relied
> > on for the future.
>
> But if I whant to create an interface for iostat to retrive data from
> the disk drivers to generate an extended disk statistic, should I wait
> untill the interface is "reconsidered and rearchitected" or will
> it be a minor thing to convert from the current interface to the uppcoming
> interface?
Well, the change will essentially be that you specify a string
("hw.disks.stats") instead of a int[] with some magic numbers in it.
apart from that it will be the same.
I expect it to be in place in two weeks or so...
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