Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:16:33 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom debugging tools ? Message-ID: <1094.1238102193@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:22:22 %2B0900." <20090326112222.GE10080@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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In message <20090326112222.GE10080@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au>, "Wilkinson, A lex" writes: > > 0n Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:17:30AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml > >Curios, why doesn't 'sysctl -a' display "kern.geom.confxml" ? e.g. Because we don't want to spam the sysctl -a output with so much output. There are many other sysctls which also are not shown during sysctl -a because they return binary structures. The '-b' flag means "I know it may be binary" and we (ab)use that to supress the XML output from sysctl -a. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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