From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 10: 9:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D3414D04 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA10454; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:09:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199908161709.KAA10454@apollo.backplane.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> :>2) under "kern.emu.linux" :> :>3) under "linux" :> : :> :I vote for 3. :> : :> :-- :> :Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member :> :phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." :> :FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! :> :> Ditto. Linux emulation is going to become increasingly important, :> burying deep would just make everyone's life more difficult. : :Well, it's also a module, so perhaps we should create the whole subtree :for modules (as was already discussed several times..) : :Andrzej Bialecki Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we believe linux emulation will not become 'standard' in the near future. Then we'll kick ourselves for giving the sysctl's convoluted names :-) -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message