From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 8 0:32:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EB337B424 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 00:32:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14x1yo-0006uI-00; Tue, 08 May 2001 09:32:22 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA21689; Tue, 8 May 2001 09:32:19 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 21435; Tue May 8 09:31:28 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14x1xw-0001Y3-00; Tue, 08 May 2001 09:31:28 +0200 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries In-reply-to: Your message of "07 May 2001 19:23:35 +0200." Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:31:28 +0200 Message-ID: <5954.989307088@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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