From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 14:32:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23384 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:52 -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 OAA23361 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:32:44 -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 XAA22794; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:31:37 +0100 (CET) To: Archie Cobbs cc: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic sysctl registration In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:12:02 PST." <199901252212.OAA18030@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:31:36 +0100 Message-ID: <22792.917303496@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199901252212.OAA18030@bubba.whistle.com>, Archie Cobbs writes: >Doug Rabson writes: >> >> If anyone is interested in seeing diffs (approx 23k), please contact me. > >I'm interested.. could you email me the diffs? > >I'm more interested in whether these patches can be committed... ? >Have Poul, DG, et. al. seen them? I'm somewhat weary of doing too much for sysctl, until we have intelligently examined the stuff and decided which way we want to go with it. (This patch is probably perfectly all right, without this comment being construed as a "Reviewed by:" :-), but before it goes in, I would like to hear if sysctl "is basically what we want" or if sysctl needs to be extended (for instance in the "repository" direction) ? One of the weak points about the current sysctl scheme is the rather simpleminded permission scheme, will we need something more capable ? The current system >is< capable if you write it yourself in a function, but we don't want 100 functions doing the same thing.) We probably also need to consider name-space management... And, documentation. I do like the "semi-literate" programming style, where you can stick a meaningfull documentation (ie, potentially several pages of it) right there in the source, (but I don't want it compiled in and loaded!) but for it to become real documentation, SGML or -man will be needed, and that would probably be too ugly for most eyes, or no ? -- 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