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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.c src/sys/vm vm_meter.c vm_param.h src/usr.bin/systat vmstat.c src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c 
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In message <200301111942.h0BJg6ED041424@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
>
>:I had not noticed this, but noticed many others (loss of compatibility
>:by renaming old interfaces, printf format errors in sysctl.c including
>:truncating all the int32_t fields mod 64K, and some bugs in the source
>:and output formatting in sysctl.c).
>:
>:The following patch fixes most of the problems in sysctl.c (however, I
>:would prefer to back out the changes there, since everything is or should
>:be better thandled in vmstat or systat).
>
>    sysctl.c has a mechanism to print out normally opaque sysctl structures.
>    Either we support it or we don't. 

We should not support it.


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