Re: sysconf - exposing constants to userspace

[Tim Hockin]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:20:34AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jeff Sipek wrote:
> > I think that making something in /sys would make the most sense,
> > with one constant per file. We could dump the consts files to for
> > example /sys/consts, or make a logical directory structure to make
> > navigation easier.
> 
> Isn't that very similar to the /proc/sys/kernel we have now?

sysctls are all writable (unless I am missing something).  A lot of these
things are not really tunables.

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Tim Hockin
Sun Microsystems, Linux Software Engineering
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