From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 30 11:49:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24418 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:49:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24413 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:49:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA91480; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:48:12 +0100 (CET) To: Mike Smith cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:38:05 PST." <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:48:12 +0100 Message-ID: <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> Nutshell: Can anybody forsee the need to export symbol type to userland? >> >No, the obvious solution is to improve and expand the sysctl interface, >which already provides size and type information. It would be trivial to implement in a sysctl, and we can even do it as sysctl kern.nlist.val.avenrun sysctl kern.nlist.type.avenrun if you want to... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message