Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm question Message-ID: <199901242130.NAA21377@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901241251480.21631-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jan 24, 99 12:52:30 pm"
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Julian Elischer writes: > As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules.... > that would be a reasonable suggestion > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > > > "netstat" to understand the PF_NETGRAPH protocol family. "netstat" > > > uses kvm_read(), etc. to read kernel symbols. However, this doesn't > > > > Don't do that. Use sysctl, that's what it's there for. > > > > -GAWollman Julian is of course correct... but Garrett you missed my point... Forget netstat for a second. The question is simply, "I'm offering to fix libkvm to understand KLD modules; is anybody interested?" Whether libkvm should even exist in a perfect world (it shouldn't) is an entirely different question. For now, we're stuck with it until somebody changes *everything* to use sysctl instead. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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