Creating Dynamic sysctls
The FreeBSD kernel provides the following 10 macros for creating sysctls during runtime:
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/sysctl.h> struct sysctl_oid * SYSCTL_ADD_OID(struct sysctl_ctx_list *ctx, struct sysctl_oid_list *parent, int number, const char *name, int kind, void *arg1, int arg2, int (*handler) (SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS), const char *format, const char *descr); struct sysctl_oid * SYSCTL_ADD_NODE(struct sysctl_ctx_list *ctx, struct sysctl_oid_list *parent, int number, const char *name, int access, int (*handler) (SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS), const char *descr); struct sysctl_oid * SYSCTL_ADD_STRING(struct sysctl_ctx_list *ctx, struct sysctl_oid_list *parent, int number, const char *name, int access, char *arg, int len, ...
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