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Date:      Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:10:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons syscons.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020405131033.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204051753.g35HrP746100@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 05-Apr-2002 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> alfred      2002/04/05 09:53:25 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/syscons      syscons.c 
>   Log:
>   Add some functionality via sysctl to syscons.
>   
>   hw.syscons.saver.keybonly: used to specify that only input is to
>   interrupt the screensaver.  This allows one to run a chatty console
>   app but still have the screen blank out until a key is pressed.
>   There should probably also be an ioctl for this, we'll do that later.
>   
>   hw.syscons.saver.blanktime: exports the screensaver timeout via sysctl.

This is sysctl either needs to become readonly or it needs to use a
SYSCTL_PROC.  The ioctl's to change this also change other variables depending
on the new value as well as doing range checking.  This hack breaks this. 
Please fix.  Also, you might have wanted to run this by yokota@ since he is the
maintainer for this code.

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