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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c
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<<On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:02:08 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> The CTL_P1003_1B_* constants seem to be in <sys/sysctl.h> now (I'm 10
> days behind -current).  Couldn't all of these be OID_AUTO and not have
> pre-assigned numbers?  Having to preassign the numbers gets in the way
> of even incremental development of the features (assuming sysctl does
> the right thing for completely unimplemented features).

The sysconf() tokens have to be pre-assigned already, and I'd prefer
to avoid the bloat of having a boatload of mostly-identical strings in
the implementation of sysconf().

-GAWollman


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