kern/39681: [sysctl] [patch] add hidden kernel boot tunables to sysctl as read-only mib

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at stack.nl
Sat Nov 7 14:50:05 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR kern/39681; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, cyrille.lefevre at laposte.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/39681: [sysctl] [patch] add hidden kernel boot tunables
	to sysctl as read-only mib
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:46:39 +0100

 We seem to have had CTLFLAG_RDTUN/CTLFLAG_TUN for quite a while (added
 in -CURRENT on Tue Oct 21 16:48:33 2003), which also cause sysctl(8) to
 tell you you need to edit /boot/loader.conf if you try to set a
 read-only tunable.
 
 Can this be closed now?
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker


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