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To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: sysctl kern.disks shouldn't have to sort its output 
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
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> Anyways. If the sorting belongs to the kernel, I could do it.
> 
> However, I think it belongs to libdisk, so I'll start working on a patch
> there.

The sorting could be in libdisk, I just suggested the kernel so that
other consumers of the kern.disks sysctl variable wouldn't have to
sort it as well.  One assumes that more than libdisk might want to get
at this data.  In any case, for this particular case doing it in
libdisk would be fine.

- Jordan

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