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NetBSD gets New sysctl Infrastructure

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the brand-spanking dept.

jschauma writes "NetBSD's Andrew Brown has committed a complete rewrite of the kernel's sysctl infrastructure. To test these changes, he cross compiled 150 kernels for 30 architecures to see where some problems might come up. Additional information can be found in Andrew's email to current-users."

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  1. Will it be picked up by Open/Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am sure the OpenBSD developers will check it out and add it if it makes sense to them, without affecting security. I recall they had to add sysctl variables for pf, which is what makes thing brittle to change.

    Kudus, that is a lot of dedication!