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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:34:43 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysctl for string arguments ? 
Message-ID:  <199810061834.LAA00391@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:50:06 BST." <199810061550.QAA06801@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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> Hi,
> 
> can someone point me to some code which is already in the kernel and
> can handle sysctl for R/W string arguments ?
> 
> I see there is sysctl_handle_string but i am totally unclear on how to
> make it works, and a few attempts just resulted in panics. Furthermore
> i cannot find a single place where this is used!
> 
> other strings in sysctl args seem not to be R/W (or at least,
> not settable with the "sysctl" command... e.g. kern.hostname and the
> like).

kern.corefile in kern_sig.c.

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