From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 0: 0:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8EC155F4 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 00:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id QAA12608; Sat, 8 May 1999 16:00:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3733E07D.13078A1C@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 15:58:05 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somebody has broken sysctlbyname() in -current References: <19990507213959.BFB0E1F72@spinner.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > It's interesting that the ANSI emulation in loader(8) is good enough to do > full-screen displays. It still seems to make sense to move userconfig-like > functionality into the pre-kernel stages including moving config(8)'s hints > to a loaded and parsed file. Forth, bah.. :-] I recall saying once I'd do it once people decided they wanted it. The disadvantage of anything written in Forth is that not many people can then maintain the code. But, then again, there is some code around written in C that no one *wants* to maintain (a certain installation program comes to mind... :) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message