Subject: Re: Using unused sysctl's
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/09/2001 22:32:38
>Hmm, I did some digging and found at least UCD SNMP uses these sysctls.
>Would it be juju to reuse those mib numbers/names for a different
>purpose?
>
>I could do the same as the "disknames" MIB with NUL seperated disknames,
>but "diskstats" I'd want to return a NetBSD structure, not a BSD/OS
>structure (and one that's future proof/64-bit safe like kern_proc2).
i guess it is okay to reuse them, as long as emulation layer
takes care of BSD/OS version (not sure if it is possible to fake
diskstats).
itojun