Accessing sysctls from kernel

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Thu Feb 26 05:45:25 PST 2004


Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:10:40PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>>In sys/sys/sysctl.h I see function kernel_sysctlbyname() that looks (to 
>>me) to be intended for accessing sysctl values from kernel, but for it's 
>>first parameter it requires a struct thread *td.

> 
> You could try lying about which thread you are, when you aren't in
> a userland thread:

Ok, that seems reasonable - I'll try using thread0.



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