Re: MP-safe ifnet with psz & psref

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:18 AM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>> I do not think you should do any extra work to support kvm grovelling.

Actually I do nothing other than leaving the original list
as it is. I thinks it's reasonable as what we do now.

>
> existing tool functionality should not be broken, however.  the
> netstat -i groveller code should be either updated to the new
> method or converted to a real sysctl, though the current work
> around would be ok for now.  simply breaking netstat -i is not
> an acceptable solution.

Yeah, someone should sweep kvm(3) users in the future...

BTW netstat already has a feature to retrieve information via
sysctl but its man page warns that it lacks some information
compared to kvm(3). Do anyone know what's lost?

  ozaki-r