Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:41:33 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, romanp@wuppy.rcs.ru
Subject:   Re: Problems with nfsstat and dynamic OID 
Message-ID:  <16366.919604493@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:32:57 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211322320.82049-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902211322320.82049-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Do
ug Rabson writes:

>Since
>sysctlbyname exists and is obviously a better mechanism for reading the
>variable (based on code complexity), then why not use it?

I support this.  It was the intention of sysctlbyname() to minimize the
use of "well-known-OIDs" as much as possible.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?16366.919604493>