From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 4 16:50:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09507 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09406; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:49:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA28135; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:49:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA05681; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:49:40 -0600 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:49:40 -0600 Message-Id: <199806042349.RAA05681@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... In-Reply-To: <199806042340.SAA00731@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199806042332.RAA05525@mt.sri.com> <199806042340.SAA00731@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Do I have permission to start removing sysctl's that aren't > > documented/used? > > > No, in fact, I specifcally suggest that if you do, then you'll > be obstructing progress on the project. I specifically suggest that undocumented sysctls are *NOT* progress. (BTW, what exactly is specifically suggest supposed to mean. Is it like 'strong suggest', or 'strongly feel'?) > You don't even know if a sysctl is used or not, so I don't think that > you are in a position to do so. By your own admission, you don't know > what most of the are for, and you then cannot be a judge. The people who know what they do have obviously no interest in them being used or they would have been documented, so I'm in as good a position as anyone, since the person who has a clue doesn't care or has forgotten about them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message