On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999, Juha Nurmela wrote:
> > Sometimes it would be handy to pass a commandline
> > to a kld, preloaded modules already support
> > arguments. kldload(2) unfortunately has only
> > the pathname.ko argument.
>
> Is this really a problem? Can the administrator not use
> sysctl instead?
Yes, but (this might be a trademark ;) commonly the arguments would
be used during the sysinit->attach, and at that time sysctl has not yet
been able to change anything. Use of sysctl would require a sidestep
from attach and later continuation with a sysctl_proc. Not a problem,
but inconvenient, IMHO. And it's analogous to executing, they too
can get arguments.
Juha
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