From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 14:51: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B8215599 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:51:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA22915; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199908162154.OAA22915@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables In-Reply-To: <199908162133.OAA00861@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 16, 1999 02:33:12 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Cc: abial@webgiro.com (Andrzej Bialecki), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > > Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we > > > believe linux emulation will not become 'standard' in the near future. > > > Then we'll kick ourselves for giving the sysctl's convoluted names :-) > > > > Yeah... Then, the next in line after "linux" are: ibcs2 and svr4 and > > whatever comes next. Can you live with them as main sysctl categories? > > Adding anything at the top level would be a terrible mistake. > > Given that "ABI" is a bit obscure, kern.compat is the only sensible > choice. > kern.modules seems to be slightly more general in that you can have kern.modules.xxx where xxx is anything under /modules that needs/wants to some tuning via sysctl. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message