From owner-cvs-all Fri Apr 13 11: 4:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D03E637B424; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:04:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3DI4Cb20459; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:04:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:04:12 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Garrett Wollman Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys socket.h src/sys/conf options Message-ID: <20010413110412.I976@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200104130350.f3D3ofW96509@freefall.freebsd.org> <200104131359.JAA58655@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104131359.JAA58655@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:59:09AM -0400 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Garrett Wollman [010413 06:59] wrote: > < said: > > > Make SOMAXCONN a kernel option. > > WHY? > > What possible purpose does this serve, other than obfuscation? Consider deploying many boxes where using /etc/sysctl.conf is just yet another place to forget accidentally. Basically it helps people deploying machines if they don't want to have to remember the sysctl for it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message