Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:54:17 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: mike@smith.net.au, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: archie@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kvm question Message-ID: <199901250254.NAA05292@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, >not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering >of nodes. OID_AUTO is not bogus. It is just an implementation detail. The sysctl data structures have to have a place to put a number for old-style numbered sysctls, and you put OID_AUTO in that place when you don't want a number. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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