Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

[Arun Sharma]

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:31:02PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > Can a loadable module, say a network driver register variables with
> > sysctl ? Can sysctl itself be made a loadable module ? As for the speed,
> 
> a.) Yes.

I don't see any examples in sys/modules. The SYSCTL_INT macros eventually
expands to DATA_SET which puts certain data in a different ELF section.

In other words, sysctl seems to be relying on physical adjacency of 
certain structures after linkage is done.

        -Arun



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