Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:00:15 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MIME-ifying sysctl types Message-ID: <20070507180015.GA694@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <f1nko6$1v2$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <f1nko6$1v2$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:39:34PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > My proposal is to MIME-ify the Format fields, best presented in examples: > > "S,proc" -> "x-struct/proc" > "S,xfile" -> "x-struct/xfile" The format field is intended for the interpretation of userland programs like sysctl. For those fields, the human user is barely able to find meaning in the fields -- so this doesn't really help much but changing the kernel ABI. Which should be considered A Bad Thing (TM). Joerg
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