Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:43:59 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl descriptions Message-ID: <199901101243.XAA16209@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <199901101211.MAA75053@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from "Brian Somers" at Jan 10, 99 12:11:01 pm
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In some email I received from Brian Somers, sie wrote:
>
> It's already been mentioned that if this goes ahead, ioctls will get a
> description in the kernel next, and who knows what afterwards.... all
> of this is a bad idea because the whole world doesn't speak English,
> and this will be used as a precedent ! There'll be an array of
> descriptions next and an access mechanism that checks your locale....
The case based on internationalization is amusing. Whilst you are quite
correct in what you're claiming, consider what language the default kernel
uses when it displays the boot logo and messages when it probes devices
and then goes into the "configuration editor".
However, they're not, strictly speaking, "documentation" as one could
consider these descriptions to be.
Linux, however, now has support for different language code pages to be
built into the kernel configuration (but it still outputs English when
it probes devices, etc).
Darren
p.s PLEASE remember to look at CC lists when you're replying and perhaos
cull it down some ? I'm sure we all like FreeBSD but getting two
copies of every email during the day because I was silly enough to
reply to one early on is stupid when the email no longer quotes me.
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