Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Dan Seguin
Is it possible to make nodes dynamically that are immutable from userland (even by root), but modifyable from the kernel? On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Yes. See for example linux emulator or my SPY module: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/spy You can also create

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Dan Seguin wrote: Is it possible to make nodes dynamically that are immutable from userland (even by root), but modifyable from the kernel? Yes, of course. Just mark them as read-only (CTLFLAG_RD). You are free to assign any value to them within the kernel. If it's more

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Arun Sharma
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:09:35AM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: I was thinking about implementing SMP cpu stats using sysctl today and I have a question - can I create sysctl nodes dynamically ? i.e. for (cpu = 0; cpu get_num_cpus(); cpu++) { /* create sysctl

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:09:35AM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: I was thinking about implementing SMP cpu stats using sysctl today and I have a question - can I create sysctl nodes dynamically ? i.e. for (cpu = 0; cpu

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Arun Sharma
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 05:44:31PM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: Erhm.. No. Look closer at the SPY module. I create the whole branch from the root level. In the standard system there is no such thing as "kld" node, neither there is a "spy" node. I

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: I'm interested in doing something like: kern.stats.cpu0.idle kern.stats.cpu0.nice ... kern.stats.cpu1.idle kern.stats.cpu1.nice ... and I want the nodes cpu0, cpu1 etc dynamically created. It would be better

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-12-08 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: I'm interested in doing something like: kern.stats.cpu0.idle kern.stats.cpu0.nice ... kern.stats.cpu1.idle kern.stats.cpu1.nice ... and I want the nodes cpu0, cpu1 etc dynamically created. It would be better

Re: Fwd: Re: kstat - an API for gathering kernel stats

1999-11-29 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Arun Sharma wrote: [ For some reason, this post through muc.lists.freebsd.hackers gateway didn't show up on the mailing list. Forwarding it to the mailing list.. ] On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 20:38:50 -0800, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see any examples in