Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:37:45 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) Message-ID: <21827.917282265@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:15:36 EST." <199901251615.LAA19410@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <199901251615.LAA19410@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><<On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said: > >> Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments. > >Nonsense. Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in >FreeBSD. The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other >descendants use numbers. Which is irrelevant, since they don't use sysctl for the same things as us anyway (apart from a very small subset which is >ALREADY< special cased in the kernel). -- 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
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