From owner-cvs-all  Mon Nov 18 21:41: 0 2002
Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id C492237B401; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:40:59 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D26D043E4A; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:40:56 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au)
Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102])
	by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA08298;
	Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:40:49 +1100
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:53:41 +1100 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c src/lib/libc/gen sysconf.c
 src/sys/posix4 posix4.h posix4_mib.c
In-Reply-To: <200211181755.gAIHtpa4015337@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <20021119163919.K29511-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <cvs-all.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20cvs-all>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20cvs-all>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:02:08 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
> > The CTL_P1003_1B_* constants seem to be in <sys/sysctl.h> now (I'm 10
> > days behind -current).  Couldn't all of these be OID_AUTO and not have
> > pre-assigned numbers?  Having to preassign the numbers gets in the way
> > of even incremental development of the features (assuming sysctl does
> > the right thing for completely unimplemented features).
>
> The sysconf() tokens have to be pre-assigned already, and I'd prefer
> to avoid the bloat of having a boatload of mostly-identical strings in
> the implementation of sysconf().

Hmm.  An implementation from scratch could have the separate namespace
for P100x mibs as a feature -- use it for the entire sysconf() namespace
so that the sysconf() tokens can be reused for sysctl() tokens.  But I
agree that breaking binary compatibility would be bad.

Bruce


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message