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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
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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.

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