Subject: Re: Replacing the sysctl() interface.
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2000 23:07:28
Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Simon Burge wrote:
> > Or a portalfs shell script that calls sysctl(8) :-)
> 
> This forces you to know which entries are there, you cannot "ls /sysctl".

Ah, I've not been a portalfs user.  Unless sysctl dumped the contents of
a non-leaf node.  Eg:

	$ sysctl .
	ddb
	debug
	hw
	kern
	machdep
	net
	proc
	user
	vfs
	vm

and so on...

Simon.