On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:00:14PM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > > 4. This error comes up in my daily report (or from iostat -x):
> > > 
> > > iostat: sysctl hw.diskstats failed: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Do you have out of sync kernel and userland ?
> > 
> Excuse my ignorance, but isn't sysctl interface here to keep
> compatibility, even if userland and kernel are out of sync? What's the
> point of using sysctl if you must keep them in sync? You might as well
> grovel kernel memory, no?

groveling kernel memory has others problems (need to be sgid, no locking
of data, etc)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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