In message <mtuvey7wp9p.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>, "Nathan J. Willia
ms" writes:
>Elad Efrat <elad@NetBSD.org> writes:
>
>> We use sysctl(3) outside sysctl(8) a lot. Recent examples: using sysctl
>> for reading inet/inet6/local PCBs and protocol statistics instead of
>> using /dev/kmem; rpaulo@ even made trpt/trsp use sysctl, which means we
>> don't have to give them the sgid kmem bit anymore.
>
>I object to those, too.
>

I don't -- cleaning up kmem grovelers is a good idea.  Sysctl may not 
be the best mechanism, but it's far from the worst.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb