From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 30 16:00:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18206 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18196 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA21115; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:59:47 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06821; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:59:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:59:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199812302359.QAA06821@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mike Smith , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm_nlist emulation of n_type from kld symbol table at runtime. In-Reply-To: <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <199812301938.LAA04955@dingo.cdrom.com> <91478.915047292@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> 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... What about 'loadable' drivers that may have multiple symbols for multiple interfaces, ala network cards? kern.nlist.ed0.softc? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message