From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 7 10:21:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F2137B423 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14wogz-0006Rm-00; Mon, 07 May 2001 19:21:05 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id TAA02427; Mon, 7 May 2001 19:21:04 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 2371; Mon May 7 19:20:23 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14wogJ-000PqU-00; Mon, 07 May 2001 19:20:23 +0200 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries In-reply-to: Your message of "07 May 2001 18:51:22 +0200." Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:20:23 +0200 Message-ID: <99353.989256023@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07 May 2001 18:51:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Yes it will, with -X. The interesting question is why there isn't an > option to make it display just one variable in hex, and why it doesn't > print a message when it omits printing an opaque variable. Do you think it'd be okay to allow an argument to -a and -A that specifies the sysctl node from which to descend? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message