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Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>,
	Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current <current@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> It would be easy to export just the bitmask, and leave the parsing up to
> the consumer.  However, I think the strings would be more script
> friendly.
>
>   
Isn't it possible to output human readable format anyways?  For example, 
'sysctl kern.boottime' gives a human readable string.  sysctl() on 
kern.boottime gives a struct timeval.  I'm all for the bitmask idea.

Best Regards,
Nathan Lay