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Date:      Tue, 08 May 2001 09:31:28 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries 
Message-ID:  <5954.989307088@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 May 2001 19:23:35 %2B0200." <xzpae4pm5t4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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On 07 May 2001 19:23:35 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Here's a patch that:
> 
>  1) introduces the -x option, which makes opaque variables visible.
> 
>  2) allows variables to be set without the -w option.
> 
>  3) undocuments the now-superfluous -w option.

That would meet my needs.  Are you sure this is a better route than
allowing a "limiting parent node" to be specified along with -A and -a?
Seems to me that the latter would avoid introducing yet more options and
the functionality I'm proposing seems intuitive to me and Peter at
least. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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