From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 25 00:25:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15498 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-57.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15473 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00775 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:26:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysctl descriptions.. sorta.. 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 Welp, it's here.. I figured that the easiest way to go about adding some way to retreive descriptions for individual sysctls/mibs/whatever you want to call them was to add a syscall. So I've put some diffs that should add a new syscall (getsyscalldescr(2)) to achieve this (and also attempt to document a few more sysctls) at http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/junk. A small example of how to use this is also available at the afformentioned URL. HTH somebody. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message