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To: peter@haywire.dialix.com (Peter Wemm)
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Subject: Re: Can't NFS mount with latest -current 
In-reply-to: Your message of "15 Nov 95 02:38:36 +0800."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:06:11 -0800
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>Anyway, Poul-Henning has created two sysctl types.. one is a
>null-terminated "C-style" string, and the other is an "opaque" chunk
>of byte counted memory.  IMHO, the string version should always return
>the correct amount of characters that the string actually uses.  If
>the whole block is to be returned, that's what the opaque type is for.

   Yes, the "size" argument should be used to limit the copy, not prevent it
from happening. We should be using copyoutstr() for this.

-DG