A General or Miscellaneous Binary Image Activator

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 7:02:49 pm Stacey Son wrote:
> Of course, comments, questions, concerns, etc. are welcome.

Certainly the ability to cross-build ports in this way is a huge win.  I just 
have a few comments on the kern.binmisc sysctl:

It seems to be a bit overloaded and not used like a typical sysctl.  A better 
match would seem to be a /dev/binmisc that you perform ioctl's on.  A sysctl 
might still make better sense for enumerating the interperter entries, but the 
more typical way to do that would either be to have kern.binmisc.<n> be a 
sysctl that returns item <n> in the list, or to have the kern.binmisc sysctl 
that just returns an array of xbe entries (rather than having separate 
list/lookup operations) similar to how the kern.proc sysctls work.  If you 
were to do this, I would probably prefer the second approach (one sysctl that 
returns a consistent snapshot).

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John Baldwin