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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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