Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 14:05:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... Message-ID: <199806042105.OAA02097@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 13:27:47 MDT." <199806041927.NAA03558@mt.sri.com>
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> I'm not saying that kernfs would make this easier, but if I had a tuning > program that allowed me to tune it (man 8 vmtune), then it would be > *better* documented. Maybe I'm not screaming so much for the > implementation, but the interface and the way that new sysctl are added > w/out any regard to documentation/accessing them. :( I think we are perilously close to agreement here. You could argue that the absensce of such a utility implies that the nodes are not there for your general tweaking. ie. they are not exposed to your interface and thus you can effectively ignore them... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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