On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Gavin Maltby wrote: > True, but /etc/system is not an "interface" that we're proud of. I'm not > suggesting that they belong on /proc but we don't like them in /etc/system > since that requires reboot for effect (even for those that are dynamically > tuneable), performs no range checking, can brick the system etc. The > supported tuneables (as per the guide on docs.sun.com) should be tuneable > via some tool that offers sanity checking, recovery etc.
*BSD and Linux have sysctl(8) for this sort of stuff (applying dynamic changes, reading current config, and / or sane editing of the respective moral equivalents of /etc/system on each). Why not use that? later, chris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] https://opensolaris.org:444/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
