Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> writes:

> > Well, yeah.  My point is that for /kern/kernel to be useful, it has to
> > provide a symbol table for nlist() to use, and for that, it needs to
> > have the symbols available to it in the first place.
> 
> Not to forget that the symbol table should be dynamic in nature.

I have long thought that grubbing around in the kernel using nlist
was just wrong.  kernfs might be something we don't want to require
but sysctl access isn't optional last time I checked.

--Michael