Re: sysctl vs /proc/sys

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <Xine.LNX.4.44.0312120815170.2611-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:20:41 -0500 (EST)), James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> says:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] $B5HF#1QL@(B wrote:
> 
> > Or, I'd rather propose introducing sysctlbyname(2).
> 
> See the thread at 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105788786819578&w=2

Thanks, James. I think I missed the thread.

Well, some applications which can run on *BSD* and Linux uses sysctl.
Because using procfs changes the semantics, I'd love to have sysctlbyname().

Can we get the exact previous value from /proc/sys atomicly?
If so, I'm ok not to have sysctlbyname(2) 
because we can have sysctlbyname(3).

If no, please let's have sysctlbyname(2); there ARE
something we cannot do only without sysctl variants.

Note: sysctlbyname(3) and sysctlnametomib(3) is in FreeBSD.

--yoshfuji



 
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