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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines 
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 21:46:55 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200105231944.f4NJiXF09637@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers write
s:
>> > > 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.

If true, the rman code should have a big "XXX: rewrite" on top of it.

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