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Date:      Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:58:47 -0500
From:      Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, current <current@FreeBSD.org>, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Adding a hw.features[2] sysctl
Message-ID:  <478AEC07.70806@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <1200280105.7836.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1200197787.67286.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>	<20080113064450.GW57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>	<20080113182457.GN929@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <1200280105.7836.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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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



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