From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 4 17:44:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20982 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20852; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:43:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01086; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:43:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806050043.TAA01086@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: kernfs/procfs questions... In-Reply-To: <199806050023.SAA05910@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Jun 4, 98 06:23:43 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:43:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, nate@mt.sri.com, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams said: > > I suggest that you are welcome to document the sysctl's. > > As Mike stated, I will. If I ask for something and receive no response, > I'll assume that it's not used or of no use and remove it. > Don't remove it, send-pr it. > > If it's too much time for you to explain what it's for, then it's must > not be worth anything. > That isn't true, and fallacious reasoning. Send-pr it instead. Breaking things further doesn't help the problem, and since it is a bug if it isn't documented, then it should be treated as such. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message