Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 20:46:48 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries Message-ID: <20010507204648.P39862@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <49824.989257419@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:43:39PM %2B0200 References: <99353.989256023@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <49824.989257419@critter>
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 07:43:39PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <99353.989256023@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>, 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? > > You mean like > > # sysctl vfs.devfs > vfs.devfs.noverflow: 32768 > vfs.devfs.generation: 116 > vfs.devfs.inodes: 116 > vfs.devfs.topinode: 118 > > :-) As I pointed out in another message, yes, he meant like that, but with the -a or -A option. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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