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To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Subject: Re: kern/26787: sysctl change request 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 May 2001 20:30:03 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:39:11 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200105240330.f4O3U3b93675@freefall.freebsd.org>, Dima Dorfman write
s:
>The following reply was made to PR kern/26787; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
>From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
>To: phk@FreeBSD.org
>Cc: ancient@bofh.cet.net, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: kern/26787: sysctl change request 
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:27:19 -0700
>
> <phk@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Synopsis: sysctl change request
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
> > State-Changed-By: phk
> > State-Changed-When: Wed May 23 13:14:17 PDT 2001
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > This is a sensible wish, but unfortunately there are sysctl variables
> > which take opaque data types so doing this in a general way may be tricky.
> 
> I think the best way would be to have the individual handlers print
> this message.

I think that would be a needless replication of code.

I think the feature is rather marginal in the first place, so I don't
want to see 1000 lines of code in the kernel to implement it.

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