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From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: dynamic sysctl enhancement
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>Number:         16928
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       dynamic sysctl enhancement
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 22 22:40:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jun 6 13:43:31 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jun 06 13:43:46 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Arun Sharma
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Myself
>Environment:

FreeBSD 4.0

>Description:

A patch to create dynamic sysctl nodes at runtime

>How-To-Repeat:

N/A

>Fix:

The following code (and corresponding code for other data types supported
by sysctl) needs to go into /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c

void
sysctl_register_long(struct sysctl_oid_list *parent, int number, char *name,
		    int access, long *ptr, struct sysctl_oid *oidp)
{
	oidp->oid_parent = parent;
	SLIST_NEXT(oidp, oid_link) = NULL;
	oidp->oid_number = number;
	oidp->oid_name = name;
	oidp->oid_handler = sysctl_handle_long;
	oidp->oid_kind = CTLTYPE_INT | access;
	oidp->oid_arg1 = (void *) ptr;
	oidp->oid_arg2 = 0;
	oidp->oid_fmt = "L";

	/* Register this oid */
	sysctl_register_oid(oidp);
}


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@localhost.nowhere>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org
Cc: vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: kern/16928: dynamic sysctl enhancement
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:42:02 -0400 (EDT)

 >
 >   Description
 >          
 >A patch to create dynamic sysctl nodes at runtime
 
 Hmm.  Do you have suggestions of sample situations where the ability
 to create dynamic sysctls would be useful?
 
 [Be sure to include freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org in the Cc of your
  reply].
 
 
 

From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/16928: dynamic sysctl enhancement
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:04:24 -0700

 On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:42:02PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
 > >
 > >   Description
 > >          
 > >A patch to create dynamic sysctl nodes at runtime
 > 
 > Hmm.  Do you have suggestions of sample situations where the ability
 > to create dynamic sysctls would be useful?
 
 See http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18524 - specifically
 sysctl.tar.gz. I want to create one sysctl node for each CPU in the
 system. This information is available only at runtime.
 
 	-Arun
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 13:43:31 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Dynamic sysctl's have been implemented. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16928 
>Unformatted:
