Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:37:16 -0700 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r300718 - in head/sys: kern sys Message-ID: <20160526213716.GK58287@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201605260841.u4Q8ft9r045564@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201605260841.u4Q8ft9r045564@repo.freebsd.org>
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Hans, On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:41:55AM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: H> Author: hselasky H> Date: Thu May 26 08:41:55 2016 H> New Revision: 300718 H> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300718 H> H> Log: H> Add support for boolean sysctl's. H> H> Because the size of bool can be implementation defined, make a bool H> sysctl handler which handle bools. Userspace sees the bools like H> unsigned 8-bit integers. Values are filtered to either 1 or 0 upon H> read and write, similar to what a compiler would do. H> H> Requested by: kmacy @ H> Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies Would be nice if sysctl(8) would explicitly display them as "true" or "false" instead of 0 and 1. Now the userland can't differ them from uint8_t oids. -- Totus tuus, Glebius.
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