From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 16:14:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D68B156BE for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA15249; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:08:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:08:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Q: Extending the sysctl MIB for Linuxulator variables In-Reply-To: <72144.934841588@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I kinda like the idea of a top-level compat category; it will keep the > top level uncluttered when sysv and iBCS compatibility start requiring > their own knobs, and if you put linux at the top level this will later > be used as justification for putting all the other "compat" stuff up > there too. I think it's a slippery slope. > > - Jordan > This is the most convincing argument so far. It's got my vote. One caveat: let's _please_ not use capitalization in the MIB tree as much as possible. Just like the ports, it makes things easier on everyone if we use lower-case (compat.linux, compat.ibcs2, compat.svr4.) Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message