From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 7 10:24:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A082A37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 10:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA52554; Mon, 7 May 2001 19:24:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries References: <99353.989256023@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 May 2001 19:24:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <99353.989256023@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > 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? Have you tried e.g. 'sysctl hw' lately? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message