On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Bruce Evans wrote:

> >Hello! Five minutes ago I type 'nfsstat' and got:
> >
> >nfsstat: sysctl: No such file or directory
> >
> >I take a look at the source and that's what I found:
> >Nfsstat gets statistic via sysctl(3). name[0]=CTL_VFS, name[2]=NFS_NFSSTATS, 
> >but name[1] has a value of vfc.vfc_typenum, returned by getvfsbyname(3).
> >And it is very bad, 'cause vfc_typenum contains fs type number assigned
> >by kernel, not sysctl OID! As we can see in nfs_vfsops.c NFS sysctl node
> >declared with OID_AUTO (on my system it becomes 119, not 4 as returned by
> >getvfsbyname).
> 
> Now that it is possible to change the sysctl tree at runtime, the changes
> are not actually (completely) made for vfs sysctls.  Special code for
> making "impossible" changes for vfs sysctls went away.

Oh.  Thats nasty.  I don't want to allocate special oids for 'privileged'
nodes.  I think the userland code should use sysctlbyname() instead.
This patch seems to fix it for me:

Index: nfsstat.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/nfsstat/nfsstat.c,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -r1.12 nfsstat.c
--- nfsstat.c   1998/10/25 10:59:44     1.12
+++ nfsstat.c   1999/02/21 11:47:08
@@ -162,16 +162,9 @@
                        err(1, "kvm_read");
                }
        } else {
-               int name[3];
                size_t buflen = sizeof *stp;
-               struct vfsconf vfc;
 
-               if (getvfsbyname("nfs", &vfc) < 0)
-                       err(1, "getvfsbyname: NFS not compiled into kernel");
-               name[0] = CTL_VFS;
-               name[1] = vfc.vfc_typenum;
-               name[2] = NFS_NFSSTATS;
-               if (sysctl(name, 3, stp, &buflen, (void *)0, (size_t)0) < 0) {
+               if (sysctlbyname("vfs.nfs.nfsstats", stp, &buflen, (void *)0, 
(size_t)0) < 0) {
                        err(1, "sysctl");
                }
        }

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Doug Rabson                             Mail:  d...@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.                  Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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