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From:
"Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: Count m_pool_alloc() failures in netstat -m
To:
Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:02 -0600

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Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de> wrote:

> Diff below. Does one need to do something special when changing the sysctl 
> structs? Comments, opinions?

It will be a subtle and small ABI breakage between the kernel and the
netstat binary, but I don't see anything else actually looking at the
fields in the structure.  It is extremely unlikely anything in ports
looks at any fields, and will notice their positions have changed.