From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 1:34:36 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 06C9715677 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 01:34:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id RAA20830; Sat, 8 May 1999 17:31:32 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3733F5D9.C803E70@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 17:29:13 +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: <19990508081953.53BC91F72@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: > > Well, if you look at userconfig.c, you'll notice that very few people > understand/maintain that code either. The most common changes are adding > or removing device descriptions in a table, and that should be pretty > much the same no matter what language it's written in... Give me a hint file and I'll give you a hint file tweaker. I suppose this hint file could be loaded as a special file type, just like userconfig_script is nowadays. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is 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