Archie Cobbs wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > > As soon as someone modifies sysctl to work with KLD modules.... > > that would be a reasonable suggestion > > > > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > > I ran into an interesting problem in the process of modifying > > > > "netstat" to understand the PF_NETGRAPH protocol family. "netstat" > > > > uses kvm_read(), etc. to read kernel symbols. However, this doesn't > > > > > > Don't do that. Use sysctl, that's what it's there for. > > > > > > -GAWollman > > Julian is of course correct... but Garrett you missed my point... > > Forget netstat for a second. The question is simply, "I'm offering > to fix libkvm to understand KLD modules; is anybody interested?" > > Whether libkvm should even exist in a perfect world (it shouldn't) > is an entirely different question. For now, we're stuck with it > until somebody changes *everything* to use sysctl instead.
The correct fix, BTW, is to dump kvm_mkdb and have kvm_nlist() get it's data from the kernel, either via kldsym() or via a sysctl mechanism (which a lot of people have suggested, but nobody has shown the slightest interest in suggesting how this could/should be done). > -Archie Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
