From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 30 2:39: 3 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307B31514C; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:38:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA98791; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:38:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , chris@calldei.com, Bill Fumerola , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dan Moschuk , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h References: <19991129160908.J2233@holly.calldei.com> <23833.943913718@critter.freebsd.dk> <99Nov30.101104est.40338@border.alcanet.com.au> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 30 Nov 1999 11:38:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:18:17 +1100" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Peter Jeremy writes: > On 1999-Nov-30 09:15:18 +1100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >priority 2: > > Make it possible to extract the strings sysctl -d > I have been looking at this. What I want to do is expand > struct sysctl_oid to include a `pointer' to the (non-resident) > sysctl description (and a pointer to the loaded filename to > support sysctl's in KLDs). A new "staff-function" (eg > sysctl({0,6,...},...)) would return the description "pointer" > and the filename. Good luck. I implemented just that about a year ago. It was ripped out with extreme prejudice by a certain axe-wielding Dane whose name appears near the top of this mail. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message