From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 14:38:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24898 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:38:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24891 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26175; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:37:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd026016; Tue Nov 3 15:37:49 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22900; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 15:37:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811032237.PAA22900@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: scanf in the kernel? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:37:48 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811032054.MAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Nov 3, 98 12:54:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You've interpreted this wrong. My intent was to state "You should > > consider the ultimate consequences of your design decisions before > > you make them" and "I think this design decision is ill considered". > > I know. This is why I said you were making an implicit value judgement. Ugh. I give up. How many times do I have to say, "yes, this is what I said" for what I said to not be considered "implicit" by you? I think we are using different definitions for "implicit". I feel like Andre the Giant trying to explain the correct usage of "inconcievable" to Vizini the Sicilian in "The Princess Bride". > > > Tell me how you plan to export the mapping between MIB numbers and > > > names from the MIB manager. Tell me how this is not a name-to-number > > > lookup interface. 8) > > > > By looking up the names in a different part of the MIB. > > Which is a name-to-number translation interface. Provided by the mib > manager group entity. > > Thank you for at last agreeing. The information is there because it was put there, not because it was translated via scanf, whatever... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message