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On 07/14/2011 01:38 PM, Mike Waychison wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be more useful for this to be a sysctl?  In particular, like
>> many similar things it probably should be a lockable sysctl (three
>> states: enabled, disabled, and locked-disabled).
>>
>> Making it a compile-time option I'm very skeptical to.
> 
> Are there existing examples of this already in the tree?
> 

I think so, but I don't know off the top of my head.

	-hpa