Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:59:13 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.c src/sys/vm vm_meter.c vm_param.h src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c Message-ID: <8551.1042318753@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:42:06 PST." <200301111942.h0BJg6ED041424@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <200301111942.h0BJg6ED041424@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w rites: > >:I had not noticed this, but noticed many others (loss of compatibility >:by renaming old interfaces, printf format errors in sysctl.c including >:truncating all the int32_t fields mod 64K, and some bugs in the source >:and output formatting in sysctl.c). >: >:The following patch fixes most of the problems in sysctl.c (however, I >:would prefer to back out the changes there, since everything is or should >:be better thandled in vmstat or systat). > > sysctl.c has a mechanism to print out normally opaque sysctl structures. > Either we support it or we don't. We should not support it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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