Automagic SYSCTLs

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

mdf at FreeBSD.org writes:
> The gist is that the handler knows the sizeof the variable in the
> kernel and uses this to copy out.  For the case of a long, there's
> some goop for SCTL_MASK32.  For the case of 8 and 16 bit variables,
> they are still copied in and out as 32-bit quantities.

The inevitable question:

 - does this break the KBI?  (I assume it does, almost inevitably)
 - does this break the ABI?  (I hope it does not)

I'm in favor of the principle, what we have now is a mess.

DES
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