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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:25:09 -0400
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile 
Message-ID:  <9510011725.AA22062@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9673.812421765@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <199509292105.XAA22916@grumble.grondar.za> <9673.812421765@time.cdrom.com>

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<<On Fri, 29 Sep 1995 17:42:45 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said:

> Registry!  Registry!

> Would you like to see everything from .emacs to .fvwmrc *go away*?

No.

> Would you like to see an end to the question of how an arbitrary port
> stores its startup configuration and/or adds itself to the list of
> apps started at boot time?

Yes.

> Would you like to be able to find out, at a glance, just what version
> of a given piece of software (or entire subsystem) you were running?

Yes.

> Would you like to see sysctl() done CORRECTLY?

It already /is/ done correctly.  Perhaps you mean `something like
sysctl(3) but done the way Jordan wants'?

-GAWollman

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