From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 3 21:32:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F74E14BDB for ; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 21:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id AAA90299 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:31:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:31:11 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: oddities in sysctl -a In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The problem seems to be that values registered with the kernel sysctl > interface cannot specify whether the values are signed or unsigned. Then > when sysctl reads the oid_fmt specifier back out, it assumes integers are > unsigned. ^^^^^^^^ Oops, I meant signed. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Director of Technical Services, ALC Communications http://www.alcnet.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message