Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:44:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines Message-ID: <200105231944.f4NJiXF09637@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> of "Wed, 23 May 2001 18:48:22 BST." <200105231748.f4NHmMF08217@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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> > > Using bits when there are large numbers of units gets awkward.
> >
> > Just wrap it in macros. I almost posted an implementation with my
> > last message, but decided that since it was so trivial it would be
> > almost insulting for me to do so.
>
> Not true - I'm too thick skinned to be insulted :oI
>
> I'll look at a macro implementation.
Ok, I've thought about this :-/ I don't think it's practical to
do this with bits if someone does
# ppp -unit 16777215
I then have to go off and allocate an array of 0x7fffff bytes just to
record the fact that someone's using a silly unit number.
I think this must be done as a sparce set of ranges.... ie, my
original idea seems to still stand.
Comments ?
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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