Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:31:11 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: sam@errno.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mutex.c Message-ID: <25156.1113031871@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:24:54 MDT." <20050408.162454.74411948.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20050408.162454.74411948.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <22307.1112996518@critter.freebsd.dk> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: >: In message <4256BF44.2000100@errno.com>, Sam Leffler writes: >: >: >> And besides, a formatted sysctl has no binary compatibility issues at >: >> all. I like that too. >: >> >: > >: >Sure, that's the downside; you need to design binary protocols with care >: >(this is a protocol after all). >: >: And given that X.400 is dead and SMTP lives I would say that an ascii >: based protocol is preferable. > >But given that TCP/IP lives, I'm not sure that this is a valid >argument. TCP/IP is the transport mechanism and compares to sysctl in this case. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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