<<On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:00:03 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree
> regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become
> aware that the sysctl space has changed?
It's listening on a kernel notification socket. (Implementation is an
exercise left for the reader, but there are already a few examples.)
-GAWollman
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