From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 1 10:25:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA20394 for current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 10:25:19 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA20389 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 10:25:17 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA22062; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:25:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:25:09 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9510011725.AA22062@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin Makefile In-Reply-To: <9673.812421765@time.cdrom.com> References: <199509292105.XAA22916@grumble.grondar.za> <9673.812421765@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant