From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 08:40:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07608 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07465 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA21829; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:37:45 +0100 (CET) To: Garrett Wollman cc: Matthew Dillon , Mikhail Teterin , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:15:36 EST." <199901251615.LAA19410@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:37:45 +0100 Message-ID: <21827.917282265@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199901251615.LAA19410@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: >< 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