> As far as I know, only FreeBSD has a string-based sysctl implementation.
Nod. > Something which always confused me about Linux' procfs - what have all > these kernel variables got to do with process state? We used to have a > kernfs which was intended for this kind of thing but it rotted after > people started extending sysctl for the purpose. About as much as having a /usr/bin for the slower binaries on the 40Mbyte moving head disk has relationship to /usr nowdays. /proc is basically both process and machine state in Linux. It got expaneded on. Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
