From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 4 18:10:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24521 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newmail.netbistro.com (newmail.netbistro.com [204.239.167.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA24378 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyonsm@netbistro.com) Received: (qmail 29765 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jun 1998 01:08:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:08:33 -0700 (PDT) From: M Lyons Reply-To: M Lyons To: "John S. Dyson" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > By the time you create a filter to do the conversions (using a more > reasonable kernel binary interface), then you have yet another sysctl > program to interpret your kernfs. :-). If written properly, you may instead have a useful, generic structure-decoding tool that can also be used by other shell scripts for different purposes in the future. perl's unpack operator is but one possible example of an interface for such a utility. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message