Subject: Re: Replacing the sysctl() interface.
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2000 23:07:28
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Or a portalfs shell script that calls sysctl(8) :-)
>
> This forces you to know which entries are there, you cannot "ls /sysctl".
Ah, I've not been a portalfs user. Unless sysctl dumped the contents of
a non-leaf node. Eg:
$ sysctl .
ddb
debug
hw
kern
machdep
net
proc
user
vfs
vm
and so on...
Simon.