From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 12 23: 5:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5A937BB8E for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA31059; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:05:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA43339; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:05:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004130605.AAA43339@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Sysctl Cc: Omachonu Ogali , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:51:16 +1000." <00Apr13.135132est.115287@border.alcanet.com.au> References: <00Apr13.135132est.115287@border.alcanet.com.au> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:05:29 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <00Apr13.135132est.115287@border.alcanet.com.au> Peter Jeremy writes: : Before you get too enthusiastic about adding description strings to the : declarations, you might like to work out: : 1) How to store the descriptions so they are accessible to sysctl(8), : but don't bloat the loaded kernel image. : 2) How sysctl(8) should locate the descriptions. 3) How sysctl(8) presents the strings in the native language of the person running sysctl. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message