sysctl add macros

Matthew Fleming mdf at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 25 14:48:25 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Venkata Duvvuru <
VenkatKumar.Duvvuru at emulex.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm unable to figure out how to add an unsigned short or an unsigned char
> values to a sysctl node.
> SYSCTL_ADD_INT, SYSCTL_ADD_UINT, etc., are present but to add a char or a
> short values I couldn't find any macros.
>
> Could you please let me know how to add them?
>

FreeBSD does not have any sysctl handlers for 1 or 2 byte values.  FreeBSD
code that wants to do this has used int or u_int instead of a smaller type.

Cheers,
matthew


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