From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 4 15:11:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20583 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20538; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA02097; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806042105.OAA02097@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:27:47 MDT." <199806041927.NAA03558@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:05:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not saying that kernfs would make this easier, but if I had a tuning > program that allowed me to tune it (man 8 vmtune), then it would be > *better* documented. Maybe I'm not screaming so much for the > implementation, but the interface and the way that new sysctl are added > w/out any regard to documentation/accessing them. :( I think we are perilously close to agreement here. You could argue that the absensce of such a utility implies that the nodes are not there for your general tweaking. ie. they are not exposed to your interface and thus you can effectively ignore them... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message