From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 18 9:46: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557BA14E3F for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:46:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id JAA13489; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA02586; Tue, 18 May 1999 09:44:54 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04977; Tue, 18 May 99 09:44:52 PDT Message-Id: <37419904.840E1CF1@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:44:52 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com Cc: Marc Slemko , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libkvm sucks References: <199905181227.FAA20767@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Greenman wrote: > > Generally we've been moving towards using sysctl for reading kernel data. > procfs/kernfs is usually the wrong tool for the job in most cases (my > subjective opinion of course). And afterwards, if someone really wants it, you could reimplement procfs using sysctl, taking advantage of the fine-grained access that has already been implemented. Not that procfs gains you anything over sysctl, except some sort of compability with Linux. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message