From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 16:55:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E46B1526D for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:55:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from gateway.posi.net (alc-144.alcnet.com [63.69.28.144]) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id TAA67930 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:55:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by gateway.posi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01498 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:04:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kbyanc@gateway.posi.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:30:15 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: pending patch to fix lack of signed sysctl values Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Since the countdown is on to a new release, I'de like to take a second and nag some committers to take a look at PR kern/15251. Greg was going to take care of it for me before he got called away on business. In any event, it would good to get into 4.0 release if for no other reason than to prevent sysctl(1) from reporting ludicrious values for some system stats on long-running systems. The patches in kern/15251 add an unsigned flag to sysctl vars and updates sysctl(1) to honor that flag. This eliminates the reporting of negative stat counts when an unsigned integer was being displayed as a signed value. In the long term, there will probably be a need to make some of these stat counts larger integers (at least on i386 where longs are 32 bits and are easily overflown on long-running systems), but for now, these patches are a step in the right direction. Thanks, Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.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-current" in the body of the message