Bug 135608

Summary: [patch] sysctl(8) should be able to handle byte values
Product: Base System Reporter: Kirill Stepanchuk <kstepanchuk>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Open ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me Keywords: patch
Priority: Normal    
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Description Kirill Stepanchuk 2009-06-15 22:10:06 UTC 
Here is a patch to allow the sysctl interface to export byte values properly. This is sometimes needed if certain hardware needs to store a value as a byte in a struct. The sysctl interface would assume that the value is an 'int', with extraneous bits coming from neighbouring fields. This change adds a byte handler that internally converts unsigned bytes to ints, and then exports them to sysctl like a regular unsigned integer.

Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
Comment 1 Bjoern A. Zeeb freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2009-06-17 15:28:37 UTC 
Whomever will put that into the tree at one point (perhaps with a
consumer), needs to to the V_irtualizing first.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                      The greatest risk is not taking one.
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:58 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 3 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-10-17 12:37:13 UTC 
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