Changes to sysctl values

[Conrad Meyer]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Shane Ambler <FreeBSD at shaneware.biz> wrote:
> I use devel/py-sysctl in some scripts to get values, using a recent
> 12-current (r336728) I see at least two values that get a different
> value type than on 11-stable. Same version of python and port.
> ...

Hi Shane,

At some point, new sysctl types were added to the kernel, including
CTLTYPE_U32.  As part of the conversion to the counter(9) API, it
seems the v_wire_count (and other vm.stats sysctls) changed to U32
type.  py-sysctl lacks support for CTLTYPE_U32 and defaults to giving
you a bytearray for unrecognized types.

Best,
Conrad