Re: Linux (free s/w) support
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:09:31 -0700 (PDT)
> Some settings are controlled via /proc (IP forwarding), while others via
> sysctl... is there a trend toward configuring everything via sysctl?
>
> -mike
>
> On 2 Oct 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Just one word: sysctl.
> >
> > Tuning the system *while running*.
> >
> > By the way, where is the Solaris /etc/system stuff documented? Last
> > year I searched for quite a while without finding any docs at all...
>
/proc/sys and sysctl() are different interfaces to the same options.
You can access each option through either interface.
-hpa