Subject: Re: sysctlfs [was: Re: core file name format: diffs]
To: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/20/1999 18:07:21
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:07:00PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd really love to see a filesystem-frontend to sysctl.
> > > (Just mumbling to myself, mostly. I know that I got the source, etc. :-)
> > 
> > An extention to kernfs ?
> 
> Ah, that means that the info will be on three places then ? I.E.
> the code in kernel, symbolic names in sysctl and the same symbolic names
> in kernfs ?

Actually these names are defined in sys/sysctl.h and other includes files.
Maybe the solution would be to handle sysctlfs in userland then (don't we have
some mechanisms to handle userland-filesystems already ?).

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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