Sysctl Naming

Matthew Jakeman m.jakeman at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Oct 11 05:09:07 PDT 2007


Please ignore this, stupid question as I have now realised.

Cheers
Matt

On Thursday 11 October 2007 11:56, Matthew Jakeman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wanting to create a number of sysctl variables at kernel boot time, 1
> for each network interface. I have the code set up to loop through the
> interfaces using ifnet_byindex() already for other purposes so wanted to
> create them in this loop.
>
> The problem I'm having is naming them, using the SYSCTL_INT() macro as
> specified :
>
> SYSCTL_INT(parent, nbr, name, access, ptr, val, descr);
>
> The 'name' parameter is what I wish to manipulate in the loop to append the
> interface name on to the sysctl variable created however I can't think of a
> way to do this. If there is another way to accomplish this I would be
> grateful to hear any suggestions.
>
> Cheers
> Matt
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