In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrzej B
ialecki writes:
>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
>
>>
>> I have two unrelated questions I can not figure out myself:
>
>> (2) I am trying to display kernel profiling sysctl variables with sysctl
>> -a or sysctl -A without success. They are defined in subr_prof.c. Why
>> sysctl command can not display them? I can use kgmon.
>
>Many sysctls that return non-ascii or non-numeric values don't have any
>special handlers in sysctl(8), so they are silently omitted from the
>listing. However, you should see them with -A... You can also write a
>trivial 10 line program to try and retrieve the values by calling
>sysctlbyname (or sysctl if you know the OIDs).
... Or use
sysctl -b mumble.frotz | hexdump -C
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