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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:03:09 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> said:
> > I think part of the problem was that posix4 was optional before,
> > with it now manditory I think I can just SYSCTL_DECL the p31b
> > top of tree and move the relevant branches directly into the
> > aio code.

Yes; options that are so option that you need an another option to tell
if they are optional were far too complicated.

> ...
> (These MIB variables should never have been given their own MIB tree,
> and the naming of the MIB tree and the `posix4' directory and header
> file are quite unfortunate.  posix4_mib.c should eventually disappear,
> but we do seem to be stuck with <posix4/posix4.h> just for the
> definitions of the CTL_P1003_1B_* constants.  Grumble.)

The CTL_P1003_1B_* constants seem to be in <sys/sysctl.h> now (I'm 10
days behind -current).  Couldn't all of these be OID_AUTO and not have
pre-assigned numbers?  Having to preassign the numbers gets in the way
of even incremental development of the features (assuming sysctl does
the right thing for completely unimplemented features).

Bruce


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