On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:

: 	However, "user.cs_path" lives in the C library, not in the
: 	kernel. To change it for the runtime, a new shared C library
: 	must be built; statically linked programs (e.g. /sbin/init)
: 	must be recompiled. Systems which do not support shared
: 	libraries lose completely - total recompilation required.

Remember, though, that the C library version does defer some sysctls to the
kernel.  Abstracting this to the kernel should be rather trivial.  And
frankly, that's where I personally believe it should go such that it could
be changed dynamically at run-time.

: 	remove source code from lib/libc/gen/sysctl.c sysctl.3 and sysctl.5
: 	references.

This is far more useful to make a working abstraction out of than to remove
it.  I firmly believe it should be made fully configurable in some way.

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